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- From: ethan@cs.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
- Subject: Re: questions on new digital formats
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- Sender: news@cs.columbia.edu (The Daily News)
- Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
- References: <1992Dec23.234533.16495@adobe.com> <28963@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1992Dec24.184453.11969@dgbt.doc.ca>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 05:00:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.184453.11969@dgbt.doc.ca> ted@dgbt.doc.ca (Ted Grusec) writes:
-
- >It might be a sad day for audiophiles and other fussy people if MD
- >threatens the CD. It is a lossy compression format, and the
- >ultra-sensitive may hear some distortion, perhaps momentarily, on some
- >kinds of materials. If MD becomes primary for audio distribution, can
- >CD survive? I think not. Lossy compression, I assure you, is NOT
- >perfect, although casual listening under the usual non-critical
- >conditions may not reveal this. Mass market, OK, but what's to happen
- >to audio and musicophile perfectionists? Must they pay big bucks?
- >Even with big bucks, can non-lossy formats for consumers survive? The.
- >last couple of years of Stereophile magazine have been following the
- >issues closely for anyone interested.
- >
- The nice thing about the MD concept is that there is
- nothing that fixes the format. Since it is a file-system concept,
- it is possible that in the future players will be made that can
- read files that are lossy-compressed, lossless-compressed, and
- uncompressed. As well, the 44.1KHz/16bit standard is not fixed,
- as that kind of stuff can be placed in a file header.
- -- Ethan
-
-
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- -- Robin Williams
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