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#242015 - 19/11/2004 21:59 Interview on Radio 4... erk!
altman
carpal tunnel

Registered: 19/05/1999
Posts: 3457
Loc: Palo Alto, CA
Yesterday I did an interview about the mp3mobile & empeg-car with Radio 4's You & Yours programme - who were asking why, given that car mp3 players have been around a while now, nobody knows about them and instead everyone is still struggling to get their iPods to work in-car.

Not sure when it'll be broadcast, but they said sometime in the next couple of weeks. You can listen to previous features at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4

<cynic>
I have absolutely no idea what I ended up saying, but it's probably largely irrelevant as they'll edit it to fit their angle anyway
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The researcher contacted pretty much everyone, from most of Rio UK through to Patrick and even Franc Buxton (who did the mp3mobile metalwork) before getting hold of me. I think, just maybe, my spam filters are a little over-zealous...

Yay! Mainstream publicity! Pity it's 6 years late, but I guess it's still better late than never

Hugo

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#242016 - 20/11/2004 07:04 Re: Interview on Radio 4... erk! [Re: altman]
andym
carpal tunnel

Registered: 17/01/2002
Posts: 3996
Loc: Manchester UK
Where did they do the interview? A lot of You and Yours is done in Manchester just down the corridor from me.
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#242017 - 20/11/2004 14:49 Re: Interview on Radio 4... erk! [Re: altman]
rob
carpal tunnel

Registered: 21/05/1999
Posts: 5335
Loc: Cambridge UK
Quote:
Yay! Mainstream publicity! Pity it's 6 years late, but I guess it's still better late than never

You were on Sky News in 1998.. that's probably when the BBC started trying to contact you.

Rob

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#242018 - 21/11/2004 19:42 Re: Interview on Radio 4... erk! [Re: rob]
Cris
pooh-bah

Registered: 06/02/2002
Posts: 1904
Loc: Leeds, UK
It must be empeg's month for promos

Check out my article in the latest issue of smartimes magazine, I give it mention in the first couple of paragraphs, it is a 4 page photo spread about my Euro trip this summer

I will scan the article in if anyone is interested, it is only a very brief mention and a link to www.empeg.com.

Cheers

Cris.

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#242019 - 23/11/2004 13:44 Re: Interview on Radio 4... erk! [Re: andym]
altman
carpal tunnel

Registered: 19/05/1999
Posts: 3457
Loc: Palo Alto, CA
I went into the Cambridge studio and sat in a small uninspiring room talking into a 1950's microphone with the researcher, who was in London. Lots of the stuff looked very homebrew ISDN

Hugo

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#242020 - 23/11/2004 17:22 Re: Interview on Radio 4... erk! [Re: altman]
schofiel
carpal tunnel

Registered: 25/06/1999
Posts: 2993
Loc: Wareham, Dorset, UK
Probably SSI apt-x systems for stereo compression at 44.1k. Always did look home brew, but damned effective. Worked on the datasheets for the researcher at Queens when I was doing my M.Sc.
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#242021 - 23/11/2004 17:49 Re: Interview on Radio 4... erk! [Re: schofiel]
andym
carpal tunnel

Registered: 17/01/2002
Posts: 3996
Loc: Manchester UK
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If it's BBC (which it is) it'll be an old CDQ G.722/Musicam coder and a BBC Radio Projects mixer.

Apt.X is popular in radio outside the BBC, but for some reason the BBC never used it until recently. Almost all Radio 1 OB's now go over ISDN using SystemBase codecs. Apt.X sounds good, has low latency but is locked in hardware, which makes it expensive.
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Andy M

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