<communications> (ADPCM) A compression technique which
records only the difference between samples and adjusts the
coding scale dynamically to accomodate large and small
differences. ADPCM is simple to implement, but introduces
much noise.
[Used where? Does the Sony minidisk use ADPCM or ATRAC?]
(1998-12-10)
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