Salut Phil,
[DAB]
 PR> I went on the web pages...this sounds GOOD!  They're able to broadcast 
n
 PR> the old 88-108mhz band, as well as several other bands, including the 
ew
 PR> 1.2 gig band that's just opening up.  Their spread-spectrum broadcasting
 PR> should keep interference to an absolute minimum.
Indeed, it sound pretty good, but then I don't understand much bout 
broadcasting anyway.
 JK>> Hope this is still readable. MUSICAM is also known as MPEG Layer II.
 PR> MPEG II I've heard of, because a number of people were concerned about 
D
 PR> music being pirated over the Internet in MPEG II files.  It turns out to
 PR> be a "so what" issue, and now many publishers are PAYING web sites to 
make
 PR> their music available for download or online listening.  Not too many
 PR> people have a PC in the dashboard of their car, and if they like the
 PR> tunes, they'll buy them.
Actually, the stuff you get on the internet is MPEG Layer 3.
I don't know what the difference is, though...
[...]
 JK>> Same scenario as with the DVD, I suppose.
 PR> DVD?  The industry keeps the customer afraid to buy it over here.  Every
 PR> time you think DVD has been perfected, a new version of DVD arrives to
 PR> obsolete the previous generation!  The addressable disks don't thrill 
some
 PR> people either.  They aren't used to the idea of buying a disk that will
 PR> only play for 48 hours until they pay more money.  It's a lot like 
rental,
 PR> but the customer has bought the disk.  The good news is the prices are
 PR> heading down out of the stratosphere.
Well, you still seem better off than we are. Almost anybody I know buy it's 
DVD via mail-order in the US. European DVDs seem to be very rare.
bye ....
         Joe
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