MP3 or Finger to the Man is a presentation about MP3 technology and the consequences of digital convergence.

1. MP3
or
Finger to the Man?
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2. Lossy Compression
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3. Dates of the
R3volution
• 1979, Psychoacoustic Masking
• 1991, ISO standard
• 1995, mp3
• 2007, Steve Jobs kills DRM
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4. Evolution of the
ongoing R3volution
• MPEG codec
• MPEG Layer 1
• MPEG Layer II (MPEG 2, HDTV) > MP4
(AAC)
• MPEG-1 Layer III (Audio) > MP3
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5. What you never see (or h3ar)
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6. Br3akdown
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Source: ZeroPaid.com
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7. Fr33
• Prince’s “Planet Earth” • July 15, 2007
• RadioHead - “In Rainbows” • Oct 10, 2007
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Source: Time
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8. Convergence
(another form of compression)
• Everything is digital
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9. Film
• IMDb *
• iTunes
• Withoutabox *
• CreateSpace *
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* Amazon.com
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10. Failur3s?
• Audiences don’t know what they are
missing
• Dark fiber?
• What happened to Hi-Fi?
• Corollary to Marshall McLuhan’s “The
medium is the message.”
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11. Fr33 at last
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