Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What they give is advice, they don't tell you what to do," she says. "It's nice you can sort of listen and decide what to do on your...
...played. Frankly, it usually wasn't worth waiting a minute or so to hear, "Game over, man!" from Aliens. And if these delays were annoying to Harvard students, blessed as we are with fast direct connections to the Internet, they were intolerable; to the digital unwashed masses trying to listen via a telephone line...
Progressive Network's RealAudio technology, on the other hand, allows Web surfers to listen to sound as it's downloading. Click on a RealAudio link, and a few seconds later you're listening to news, sports or music from your computer's speakers...
...initially, there were few providers of RealAudio files. ABC and NPR were early adopters, but there was little else to listen to. And the novelty of hearing Bob Edward's smooth baritone garbled by RealAudio faded fast when you could hear the same programming better via a $10 radio...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a move that has put radio stations nationwide on a competitive alert, the Federal Communications Commission has decided to open up the airwaves to fee-charging national stations using digital sound. The news outraged radio broadcasters, who fear that pay-to-listen digital radio spells doom for small-town radio. "The bottom line is that satellite-delivered radio threatens the thousands of community radio stations, which provide local news, weather and sports, and have made the U.S. system of broadcasting the envy of the world," says National Association of Broadcasters spokesman Dennis Wharton. Maybe, but the more...