By BY PHILIP DE LANCIE ⋅ Published: 04/01/2003

Looking back two decades ago to the launch of the Compact Disc, it's easy to forget how iffy the carrier's prospects were in its...

By BY PHILIP DE LANCIE ⋅ Published: 12/01/2002

The music industry has long understood that an audio project isn't really ready to distribute until it's been polished by expert hands in the...

By BY PHILIP DE LANCIE ⋅ Published: 09/01/2002

When it comes to audio for consumers, few companies have been more influential in setting standards than San Francisco's Dolby Laboratories. The company

By BY PHILIP DE LANCIE ⋅ Published: 02/01/2002

When consumer electronics, entertainment and computing interests came together behind DVD more than five years ago, plans included formats for home video,

By BY PHILIP DE LANCIE ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

When Wade Norton, chief engineer at NRG Recording Services, describes the old days before the studio installed a Fibre Channel SAN to link its...

By BY PHILIP DE LANCIE ⋅ Published: 08/01/2001

Because DVD-A supports higher-fidelity, lossless surround, the format is what the record and recording industries have wanted for years. THE DVD-AUDIO

By BY PHILIP DE LANCIE ⋅ Published: 06/01/2001

In the two decades since entered the pro audio vocabulary, digitized sound has become integral to nearly every segment of the industry. Initially, the