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Tuesday, 05 July 2005 |
Hollywood
Eyes Avalanche for MP3 Distribution
TechNewsWorld - Sherman Oaks,CA,USA
Microsoft's Avalanche technology encloses the entire digital film, or
song, in each bit that is transferred -- akin roughly to the way DNA in cells in
the human body contains all the information about that person's hereditary
makeup.
Software engineers at Microsoft's Latest News about Microsoft laboratory in
Cambridge, England, have developed a new, proprietary peer-to-peer (P2P)
technology that is being eyed by Hollywood producers as a potential distribution
channel for their content.
Code-named "Avalanche," the product is said by Microsoft to be a safer
alternative to BitTorrent, another P2P tool, as it divides digital files into
smaller chunks, making it easier to download movies and music in the MP3 Latest
News about MP3 format.
According to Peter Key, director of the networking and systems group at
Microsoft in the U.K., speaking during a recent "open day" at the company's
facility in Cambridge, the so-called Silicon Valley of Europe, the technology
reduces the bottlenecks inherent in most digital music and movie downloading
systems.
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