Consumers no longer have to trade off audio quality with streaming speed, thanks to MPEG4-SLS (Scalable-to-Lossless Coding), the world's first adaptive audio streaming technology using the MPEG-4 SLS ...

Fraunhofer IIS believes its new MPEG audio codec makes CD collections obsolete. The codec, HD-AAC, offers music encoding “with quality beyond CDs and at the same time, iPod compatibility.” The company ...

Fraunhofer plans several demonstrations of its technologies at CES, including its HD-AAC MPEG codec. Based on the MPEG-4 SLS standard, Fraunhofer claims its HD-AAC codec provides future-proof, ...