San Diego – Consumers could be listening to surround-sound music through MP3 headphone stereos and portable media players (PMPs) sometime next year, according to Thomson and the Fraunhofer Institute.

PARIS — Consumer electronics giant Thomson SA said Thursday (Dec. 2) that the MP3 compressed digital audio format has been extended with the creation of a multi-channel variant intended to offer ...

Another major CeBIT premiere was the next generation of MP3 technology demonstrated by the Fraunhofer Institute - MP3 Surround technology, which provides a multi-channel listening experience with ...

The inventors of MP3 are taking portable music listening one step further with the introduction of two surround sound enhancements. Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (Fraunhofer ...

Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS is introducing a new mp3 surround streaming module that allows manufacturers to build web radios featuring true 5.1 surround sound. Visit booth R35.01 ...

December 14, 2004 MP3, the world's most popular audio compression format is about to go multi-channel. Scientists and engineers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, who developed ...

Paris — Dolby Laboratories may no longer have a lock on the multichannel-audio market, thanks to the emergence of a new surround-sound technology that stole the limelight at the Audio Engineering ...

Since its inception in 1987, the MPEG-1 Layer III audio format (MP3) has really managed to have a tremendous life. Unfortunately, many critics would say that one of its major flaws is that it is ...

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