A 1 Meg file downloaded in seconds instead of minutes. Web searches are lightning fast, e-mail is sent faster, especially with attachments and newsgroup postings are downloaded instantly. Streaming audio such as Realaudio and Liquidaudio have much superior quality when listening at cable speed. One caution - since you are effectively on a network, others can have access to any shared drives or devices on your computer which are not password protected. A friend of Randy's learned this lesson the hard way when some fellow cable subscriber deleted essential Windows files on his computer and left a message telling him to be more careful.
Cable access is available in a growing number of centres across Canada.
You can search through over 60,000 sounds by keyword or category. Once you have selected the sounds you want, you can select different formats, sample rates, bit sizes, and in mono and stereo. Charge it to your credit card and the location of where the files can be downloaded is e-mailed to you. Great idea and a great looking site. Plans are underway for Canadian Music Week '99 to be held in Toronto March 3-7.