... No. NO ONE is building ITU 5.1 rigs. What the consumer wants is the simplest setup which works and his wife will allow in the front room. Ideally he'd...
... I think they do ... my solicitor looked up the trademark database and named Nimbus (and he has no knowledge of surround sound at all). .. I also emailed...
sorry, I hit 'send' instead of 'save draft' .... I meant to say that I am waiting back to hear from Nimbus/Wyastone on their position on the 'ambisonics'...
I seem to remember Crac saying some time ago that it had expired. But I may be wrong... Richard, is that what you recall? I'm pretty sure that Crac also said...
... no doubt it is excellent, but my concern is not about quality, just about 'user experience'. BTW I have had poor user-experience issues with VLC,...
... In the US, at least, the trademark is abandoned (dead). From the U.S. trademarks database: Word Mark AMBISONICS Goods and Services (ABANDONED) IC 009. US...
... That's interesting. Is there an international trademark office? or is it just country by country. I'll have to confirm with the solicitor and Wyastone ......
All, I've been trying to come up with a model for distributing / selling the pieces submitted on Ambisonia. Micro-payments (and payed single file downloads)...
... No, wrong. I don't have the chapter and verse here right now (I'm in LA on my laptop) - we either discussed it here or it was in SurSound a few months ago....
... Hmmm. I don't have experience of that and only a very small percentage of users will. I wouldn't rule out an app because it is a little more trouble to do...
This new product just came to my attention: Beyerdynamic Headzone Home "The foremost feature of the Headzone® system is its patented Headtracking function...
I've tried them. They seem to work well. They're not quite as good as the studer version (which they discontinued) as this included scanning software, and...
Bruce Wiggins
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Sep 3, 2007 8:19 am
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Forgot to mention, front/back reversals were, as expected, gone. Also, the out of headness for front source, particularly, was much better than without head...
Bruce Wiggins
bruce.wiggins@...
Sep 3, 2007 8:20 am
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Yes. That's my understanding based on Crac's posts. ... From: Paul Doornbusch Sent: Monday, 3 September 2007 9:58 To: ambisonicbootlegs@yahoogroups.com ...
I agree with most of your points. Your comments of foreign subtitles needs to be compared to other Windoz & Apple players. I am now experiencing serious video...
All, I've done some test AAC stream decodes that can be tested here: http://www.ambisonia.com/tests/streamingAAC I'm going to ask the doom9 people (and some...
The tests work well for me, quite easily - I left a comment on the page. By the way, without having closely followed the VLC format support debate, I found...
... VLC can read AAC without any problems (I've already tested it on that test page). VLC will even offer a 'headphone' version of any 5.1 content (I guess...
... ah, no, now I remember .... it was because AAC can do any multi-channel combination ... so the original idea was to offer it as BFormat wrapped in AAC ......
Another advantage of AAC compared to AC3 or DTS is the graceful fallback if you're using analogue audio outputs at the time you hit play. That's got to be...
... I responded to Etienne privately, but for the record I'm also very happy. Nice work. -- John Leonard Sound & Show Control 10 Belsize Park Hampstead London ...
... Fine with me. ... From a quick listen it sounds fine. The stereo fold down on my laptop is reasonable too. What bit rate are you using? ... and you can...
... I'm using no settings (i.e. everything default) on the AAC encoder .. I was advised to NOT use the fixed bit rate setting because the file is actually a...
A few more details about the AAC solution: Aaron's Glazunov Spanish dance (full periphony) *.amb 102 MB *.DTS 30 MB *.m4a 9.2 MB Paul H's Widor Kyrie...
I've released my little Ambisonic Reverb to the community. It's based on the excellent Freeverb, and is free for personal use (for research or commercial use,...