[BC] What is "better?" HOW do we get there?

[Robert Orban]

At 12:15 PM 1/21/2006, you wrote:
>From: Goran Tomas <goran.tomas at email.htnet.hr>
>Subject: Re: [BC] What is "better?" HOW do we get there?
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>And another question if anyone can answer it - why isn't the current
>IBOC codec aacPlus v2, but some derivate that seems to sound not as
>good. At those bitrates, every bit counts (literally)! So why not go
>with the best possible of what we have today?

This is purely a guess, as I am not privy to iBiquity's management decision 
making, but my guess is that they didn't want to send any more of their 
revenue stream to Europe than absolutely necessary. They are already paying 
licensing fees for the SBR part of HDC, as Coding Technologies developed 
and owns that intellectual property. aacPlus would have been another 
significant financial hit for them because of the additional codec 
licensing expenses.

As you know, Orban has licences for AAC and aacPlus, used in our Opticodec 
products. These licenses are NOT cheap.

Bob Orban