On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Steve Underwood
<steveu@coppice.org> wrote:
Nyamul Hassan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just noted Micheal Collins mention "Enjoy lower quality G.729
> calls". By "lower quality" do you mean G.729 in TC400B is lower in
> quality compared to software compression? Or is that comparing G.729
> with G.711?
>
I think he is just saddened by the way people tolerant crappy quality,
and how slow the takeup of wideband voice has been.
The TC400B doesn't do G.729. It does G.729A, which is significantly
lower in quality. However, G.729A is what almost all equipment that
vaguely says G.729 actually implements. Its lousy, but few people care.
The TC400B works as well or as badly as anything else.
Steve
Well said! Like Steve has pointed out in the past: G729/G729A is a race to the bottom. After using WB and UWB codecs all day every day for the past 6 months I just can't live with G729 or even GSM for that matter. However, to each his own.
-MC