Filed under: Multimedia, Peripherals, Software
Audiophiles hoping to get a bit more clarity out of those
Bluetooth cans can officially get excited, as Open Interface North America (OINA) has just announced plans to introduce a new lossless codec for stereo
audio known as SOUNDabout Lossless. Unsurprisingly, the firm is keeping its secrets on the DL for now, but recent demonstrations showed that it will have a latency as low as two-milliseconds and never exceed ten-milliseconds. Additionally, power consumption was intentionally kept low in order to preserve that precious battery life, and just in case you couldn't guess, it'll only stream properly with
Bluetooth 2.0 gizmos. Sadly, there's no firm dates to mark on your calendar just yet, but the company is currently estimating that the
codec will be ready to rock in detail never before heard over BT "as early as 2008."
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Aug 01 2007, 01:05 PM
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Filed under: Music, Bluetooth, Multimedia, Peripherals, Software, audio, sound, stereo, lossless, SOUNDabout Lossless, OINA, codec, SoundaboutLossless, audiophile