True. However it would remove any legal problems with the file format, as it is not covered by any patent. There must be some point in the not-distant future that raw-WAV would just emerge again "for simplicity".
2010/1/26 Stephen Jolly <st...@jollys.org> > On 26 Jan 2010, at 16:22, Brian Butterworth wrote: > > Surely there is a point, because Moore's Law is exponential where it just > becomes too much hassle to do the encoding and decoding because storing and > carrying the data raw will have reached "free". > > Yeah, but OTOH the processing power to do the encoding and decoding is also > "free". > > S > > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
