Enough beating around the bush!
How about this question folks:
"What exactly is lost with the standards in ATRAC and Minidisc formats?"
possible variables: different manufacturers standards for MD; different
standards for ATRAC; others?
please omit any comments in defense or against ATRAC or minidisk
let's try a scientific inquiry without opinions, OK?
Jeff Daub
Charles Bragg wrote:
> At 06:08 PM 4/30/2003 +1000, John Campbell wrote:
>
> >DAT and HD are not "lossy compression" at all. Having captured bits
> >via analogue to digital conversion, they do not then purposefully
> >reduce the bit-rate through requantisation - and that is, I repeat,
> >what lossy compression means. So the issue IS that ATRAC is lossy.
>
> A correct definition, but unless you are contending that a
> first-generation ATRAC recording is inferior to a DAT or HD recording,
> it doesn't matter. Who is going to make ATRAC copies of ATRAC recordings?
> The only helpful way to use the term 'lossy' is as an
> explanation of why one recording is inferior to another. You can't use
> the term as the proof.
>
>
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