David Ranada

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Facing the Codec Challenge
David Ranada  |  Jun 09, 2002  |  0 comments

The steady progression of compressed digital audio into all sorts of places (do you really need to listen to Mozart on a PDA?) is raising all sorts of issues. But none is more important to readers of Sound & Vision than the ability of the codecs - the encode/decode software - to faithfully reproduce music after compressing CD tracks to file sizes that can be easily downloaded or stored.

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High-Def Discs and Tapes
David Ranada  |  Apr 02, 2002  |  0 comments

Okay, I know I shouldn't gloat. But I told you so. In a keynote speech at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) annual convention a year ago, I warned that if the broadcast and cable industries didn't get their act together when it came to putting high-definition signals out there in a big way, high-def programming would be provided by other means.

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Battle of The Bookshelfs
David Ranada  |  Aug 12, 2001  |  0 comments

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