> (Continuation of: The commercial future of Ambisonics, 15/5/2013) > [ ... ]
Some interesting ideas. I hope they have only fallen foul of "the good day to publish bad news on" (as the politicians say) effect, that is August is a bad month to publish good news ... if you want comment / feedback on it. Anyway, the two principle ideas seem to me, to be: I To use UHJ for first order distribution. The consumer has no messy decoding to L/R if that is all they want. But if the file is always the highest level of UHJ (3 or 4 channel) that the original material will support then: -users can do ambisonic playback -users that start with L/R playback have the tempting thought that there is 'more in the file' if only they go 'looking' If this is a proposed standard, then I would say: -BHJ (2 channel) should not be used -SHJ (2.5 channel) should not be used (is bandwidth really a problem, except for radio, these days?) -THJ (3 channel) should only be used if the original material is three channel -PHJ (4 channel) is preferred It would need some neat little standalone UHJ->-B-format decoders writing ... (But that _could_ (unideally) progress whilst people beenfitted from just L/R.) Anyone able to comment on why the UHJ (2 channel) buttons on Ambisonia were (?)never made active? I presume a re-coding problem, but it would be interesting to know. II Yes, we are hitting our head on the ceiling with FuMa. Personally, though, if we are to move on I would go for an infinite order 'file' format. Otherwise before our bruised heads recover we will be banging the ceiling again .... But it needs doing. Michael (I say " 'file' format " as it is a format for files, for streaming, .....) _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
