TWICE - January 22, 2001

LAS VEGAS -Thomson and the Fraunhofer Institute, the co-developers of MP3, are working with a third company to develop an improved MP3 codec intended to deliver 128-Kbps MP3 performance at a 64-Kbps data rate.The new codec, dubbed mp3PRO, would almost double the music-storage capacity of MP3.

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