According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH186896. A recording system controller according to another embodiment includes a controller capable of selecting a timing of a current change applied to a first writer based on a current in at least one nearby writer for compensating for an effect of crosstalk from the at least one nearby writer. The second plane is different from the first plane. Either way, the media player interface includes a single point interface. In combination with hardwarecircuit optimization, one can achieve fast turn-on of an optical output signal at a stable wavelength. Furthermore, the method includes transmitting the first encoded stream with the selected encoding parameter values to a transcoder over a standard communication network, transcoding the first encoded stream into a second encoded stream having the selected parameter values and forwarding the second encoded stream.