But low bit rates have kept a lot of music fans on the fence.
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Furthering the versatility of the microP2 card adaptor, its design allows Class 10 or high-quality SD cards (at bit rates only up to 50Mbps) to be used in P2 products in emergency situations.
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You can record from any stereo source with a stereo in-line jack and won't have to get any specialized software to put recordings back on your computer--all you need is an analog or digital source at bit rates up to 160 kbps.
What's more, the Digital Entertainment Center , protects customers' existing technologies from obsolescence by supporting current video formats up to 1080p, and all major color and encoding standards including Mpeg2, Mpeg4, H.264, and VC1, and up-converting these to bit-rates as much as triple conventional HD rates, while incorporating full image and device security.
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He expects short-term rates to rise a bit, but long-term rates to fall.
You could use the revenues from that to cut income tax rates a little bit.
Compared with its American counterpart, the Federal Reserve, the ECB under Mr Duisenberg has been a bit tardy in cutting interest rates to reflect the fact that deflation and economic stagnation are now more of a danger in Europe than inflation.
Treasury rates would fall a bit further, but so would recoveries on defaulting issues.
Currently, the markets expect Italy's rates to fall a bit by 1999, but to stay above Germany's.
My suggestion is that the FOMC allow interest rates to rise a bit without tightening monetary policy.
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Surely, Bernanke and Company could find a way to allow rates to rise a bit while making bank reserves more freely available.
For a bit of historical context, fixed rates were over 3% from the late 1990s through early 2001, and have been below 1% since May 2008.
What they should be focused on, in my opinion, is how to allow interest rates to rise a bit in the context of a generally accommodative policy.
Firms are not dying to invest, produce more output, and hire new workers if only interest rates would fall a bit more or banks had more reserves.
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That does not change my view that, if QE and interest rate management are separate things, it would be better to give savers some relief by allowing interest rates to rise a bit.
The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA), which introduced DisplayPort in 2006, last year ratified DisplayPort version 1.1a, thus enabling resolutions as high as 4K2K (4x resolution of 1080p displays today), 16-bit color depths and 120Hz refresh rates.
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There is always the temptation to leave interest rates low just a bit longer to avoid choking off growth, and after previous downturns the European Central Bank was duly berated on all sides when it moved against a perceived risk of inflation.
In markets where house prices didn't spike as they did in LA, cap rates tend to be a bit more generous.
In America, moreover, consumers have also been borrowing massively on the assumption that inflation and interest rates will rise only a bit.
Certainly I would be willing to sacrifice a bit of power consumption in order to get a bit more speed and more reliable frame rates.
The tradeoff here is that you typically give up a bit in the way of stated interest rates in return for the option to raise your rate.
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That would make servicing foreign-currency debts less crippling and might even allow domestic interest rates, which have been kept high to stabilise exchange rates, to drop a bit.
So if this extra spending means that their current account surplus becomes smaller, then there's less available to buy U.S. Treasuries, and you'd expect U.S. interest rates to go up a bit.
Interest rates would probably need to be a bit higher than at present in the euro area.
To be clear, right now the ECB is purchasing modest amounts of Italian and Spanish government debt, for example, in an attempt to keep the respective interest rates they're charged at a bit less than the penal and prohibitive 7%.
What we have said is as part of a broader package we should have revenues, and the best place to get those revenues are from folks like me who have been extraordinarily fortunate, and that millionaires and billionaires can afford to pay a little bit more -- going back to the Bush tax rates.
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In fact, rates fell and Freddie might have gotten hurt a bit on those inverse floaters.
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