One stipulation I will make, though, is that I'm not in favor of the.1 track... That's primarily there because people don't want to put large speakers all over the room - they'd rather have little satellite systems that don't go below 250 Hz, and a separate subwoofer that they can shove behind the sofa so their wives/girlfriends don't get mad. You can get _much_ better sound with 5 matched full-range speakers.
My understanding of surround mixes is that (at least with DVD-Audio) you should have full-range speakers. In order to use satellite speakers, you need special bass management circuitry (like prologic).
The bass channel has some of the bass sounds (eg 1812 canons) but not necessarily all of the bass.
Commercial markets are more equitable in the absence of monopolies.
Suppose a company "dumps" products at little or no cost. This practice serves to drive the competition in a particular market out of business. Once a monopoly is achieved, the company can then raise prices because the customers have no alternative products to choose from.
Free Software products are immune to the economic pressure of "dumping". For this reason, they help to ensure that commercial software companies give fair value to their customers.
Streaming multimedia technology will become more pervasive in the future. Therefore, the consumer protection afforded by free software is especially important.
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One stipulation I will make, though, is that I'm not in favor of the .1 track... That's primarily there because people don't want to put large speakers all over the room - they'd rather have little satellite systems that don't go below 250 Hz, and a separate subwoofer that they can shove behind the sofa so their wives/girlfriends don't get mad.
You can get _much_ better sound with 5 matched full-range speakers.
My understanding of surround mixes is that (at least with DVD-Audio) you should have full-range speakers. In order to use satellite speakers, you need special bass management circuitry (like prologic).
The bass channel has some of the bass sounds (eg 1812 canons) but not necessarily all of the bass.
Perhaps digital photographers will spur the demand for recordable DVD drives and a de-facto standard will emerge.
Commercial markets are more equitable in the absence of monopolies.
Suppose a company "dumps" products at little or no cost. This practice serves to drive the competition in a particular market out of business. Once a monopoly is achieved, the company can then raise prices because the customers have no alternative products to choose from.
Free Software products are immune to the economic pressure of "dumping". For this reason, they help to ensure that commercial software companies give fair value to their customers.
Streaming multimedia technology will become more pervasive in the future. Therefore, the consumer protection afforded by free software is especially important.