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July 18, 2003: QDesign Music Codec Professional Edition Now Available for Mac OS X  Latest offering continues a tradition as the high-quality, compatible audio compression standard for Apple QuickTime.

November 1, 2002: QDesign Corporation Announces Corporate Restructuring. Company to consolidate operations in Vancouver, leveraging core expertise, applications, and signal processing intellectual property assets into new products.

January 8, 2002: QDesign Corporation Appoints Thomas W. Carhart President and CEO. ReplayTV, Compaq, and Motorola Executive to Head Leading Provider of Audio Technologies.

November 28, 2001: QDesign Named to Deloitte & Touche Fast 500 List. Leading Vendor of Audio Compression and Security Software Among the 500 Fastest-Growing Technology Firms in North America.

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“(Mike) Fuller (a principal of Creative Support Services) says that QuickTime is newer and more efficient system for delivering audio than MP3, which was designed more than 10 years ago. ‘CSS Music uses the state-of-the-art QDesign codec, which was designed specifically for music.’ Fuller believes that at low bit rates, the QDesign Music Codec offers better sound quality than MP3...”
-- reproduced with the kind permission of Mix magazine. From the April 2001 issue, "Sound Effects Libraries" by Gary Eskow. (You can check out Mix magazine online at www.mixonline.com)

"QuickTime's flagship audio compression algorithm... can provide astonishing compression ratios (as much as 50:1) while retaining a great deal of the original audio quality... small enough for streaming on the Internet (even at 28.8 kbps modem speeds), and the sound quality is usually better than comparable MP3 files... QDMC 2 is a perceptual codec that uses pyschoacoustic principles to achieve dramatic results."
-- Electronic Musician, January, 2001

QDesign Launches new Secure, Scalable Digital Music Platform; Read the Media Coverage on QDX by QDesign:
Streaming Media.com
Internet News.com
Digital Pro Sound
MYCOM: PCweb (Japanese)
Harmony Central

QDesign's VP Artist & Media Relations, Ken Ashdown gives an interview to Mike Metlay about QDX and "The world beyond MP3", in the November 2000 issue of the Recording Magazine.

Bill Stunt of "Recording" magazine gives high marks to MVP, it's encoder and it's proprietary Codec QDesign Music in his article "Streaming Audio". (November 2000)

Ron Simpson of "Internet Audio" reviews among others, QDesign Music Codec in his article "Optimising audio for the web" (July 2000)

Read an excerpt from Scot Hacker's "MP3: The Definitive Guide" published by O'Reilly & Associates.

QDesign's MPEG Layer 2 gets a critical assessment and is compared with other codecs, in a two part series "Lossy Compression" in the May and June 2000 editions of the "Hi-Fi" Magazine.
"Codec B (MPEG Layer 2)...better on vocals and speech, providing more expressive vocals and more realistic ambience and reverb."
"Codec B (MPEG Layer 2)...among the best again, sounding more expressive musically."

Andrew Tokuda compliments MVP 1.0 for its "Concise design. High quality at low bit rates" in MacAddict's February 2000 edition!

The QDesign Music Codec "...is the codec to beat for stereo audio delivered at dialup data rates." Decoding the Codecs, Wired (August 1999)

"TI, audio firm sing praises of new music technology-- Texas Instruments has teamed up with an audio technology company (QDesign) to develop new chips that let portable Internet-based music players store up to five times more." Brooke Crothers, CNET News.com (July 14, 1999)

Who's using QuickTime? Here are the results of the CNN poll

Check out what The Industry Standard is saying about QDesign!

Check out what people are saying about QDesign's iMedia MPEG Pro software!

January 26, 1999: The QDesign Music Codec wins the NewMedia Magazine Hyper Awards for Audio Product of the year and best Web Audio Product!

There is a media buzz about the QDesign Music Codec! Read up on what some of the leading audio codec authorities have to say