BBC R&D's views on AAC in 1999



Nuff respect to BBC R&D:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/brochures/opendays1999/audiocoding.pdf

"New audio coding systems (such as AAC) can halve the bit-rate"
"Don't squeeze the bit-rate"

It's as if they had a premonition about what was about to happen!

BBC management (and Lindsay Cornell - the "engineer" who sold out) have a
great deal to answer for...


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