MP3 will be commonplace on phones within the next few years, In-Stat says. In-Stat/MDR notes MP3 playback capabilities already are in handsets or accessories from Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Siemens and Samsung. $$$ With plain vanilla ringtones generating as much as $3 billion this year, the music and wireless industries are hoping for big revenue in the future with enhanced mobile music, whether stored on the handset or streamed.
"Streaming music on demand over mobile networks will become an increasingly viable business proposition as network capacity increases with 3G upgrades, and as continued advances in compression make audio streaming less bandwidth-consuming," In-Stat says. In-Stat/MDR, a sister company to Wireless Week, said in a recent report that mobile music services will become more attractive when music can be streamed to handsets.
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With broadband wireless networks arriving now with UMTS and CDMA2000 1XEV-DO, it also will be possible to play streaming audio over-the-air or even download songs.
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That means iTunes fanatics can download music to their PCs and then use Bluetooth or USB connections to put them on the cell phones. Motorola Chairman and CEO Ed Zander says the handset manufacturer will develop a new iTunes music player for its mass-market music phones sometime in the first half of 2005. The emerging music cell phones come with stereo and 3D sound. These aren't your monophonic or polyphonic sounds, either. That's nothing compared to dedicated MP3 players or iPods and their 60 GB hard drives, but it probably is enough to satisfy casual music listeners. Will musical cell phones ultimately overtake Apple's iPods? Not likely, but mobile phones could open new markets for Apple's iTunes and other enhanced-audio services.Ī few cell phones today are capable of playing about 100 full-length MP3 songs stored on removable media such as SD cards. These codecs can add more channels and even a more accurate sound playback.Many of Motorola's mass-market phones will become iPod-like devices next year, ultimately raising the possibility that cell phones of the future will replace mobile music devices. Although the main codec for DTS is the standard 5.1 surround one, there are many others that aimed to extend the functionality and range of the DTS 5.1 surround channel. The application also makes it possible for users to control various aspects for their surround systems and also the tri-dimensional (3D) audio modules.ĭTS, which is short for "dedicated to sound," is a collection of multichannel audio technologies that are used to enhance the quality of sound for various devices.
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DTS Sound Utility is a specialized software utility that was designed to help owners of certain Toshiba notebook/laptop models adjust their sound parameters regarding quality manually.Īs its name strongly suggests, this application only works with DTS-capable hardware components and if the target notebook doesn't support the DTS technology, there is no way to deploy the program on the PC, as the users will be prompted shortly about their device's incapacity to meet the requirements.Īmong the capabilities of DTS Sound Utility it is possible to identify bass level enhancers and the ability to set the audio levels as one sees fit.