Digital sound is nothing more than numbers. What separates one container from another is how those numbers are packed, how much data (if any) is thrown away, and which devices understand the result.

Digital broadcast systems are increasingly dependent on signal and format conversion. Interoperability has plagued many installations and stalled system commissioning due to unexpected signal and ...

Efforts to bring advanced typography to the Web have reached an important milestone. Type designers Tal Leming and Erik van Blokland, who had been working to developing the .webfont format, combined ...