Chris Weller grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, playing guitar and tinkering with a lot of antiquated music software to create industrial electronic music. Upon moving to Pittsburgh to get his ...

While its name may not be widely known among consumers, virtually everyone has either owned or used products developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS). Developers of the MP3 ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Last month's article discussed the theory behind high-end audio coding. The second half of this series will define broadcast quality and tandem coding losses, and look at their effect on ...

In the previous sections, we discussed several error concealment techniques, targeted at alleviating the consequences of packet losses. Some of these techniques are ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Today, many broadcasters and cable programmers are under increasing pressure both to prepare and to distribute their content to viewers over more diverse pathways. These next-generation ...