Captain_Avat
join:2001-09-06
Harpers Ferry, WV
| reply to deadmeat
Re: Ridiculous
"They were 20 years ago remember tape recorders were going to ruin the industry.... "
Try 35 years ago! I remember back in the 70's that the recording industry would strong-arm FM stations into not playing whole album sides to prevent people from taping their broadcast. Rumor had it that they pushed the whole talking over the intro and song endings too to foil any "bootleggers".(But I think that started back in the 50's). Back then FM, especially FM stereo was a real boon to music broadcasts. That along with ever improving recording technology more than made up for some of the loss in quality when taping. Not to mention while the audio quality of the music was pretty good most people had cheap tape players that masked most of the defects. |
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LordMalak
join:2003-07-02
Brazil
| said by Captain_Avat  :
"They were 20 years ago remember tape recorders were going to ruin the industry.... "
Try 35 years ago! I remember back in the 70's that the recording industry would strong-arm FM stations into not playing whole album sides to prevent people from taping their broadcast. Rumor had it that they pushed the whole talking over the intro and song endings too to foil any "bootleggers".(But I think that started back in the 50's). Back then FM, especially FM stereo was a real boon to music broadcasts. That along with ever improving recording technology more than made up for some of the loss in quality when taping. Not to mention while the audio quality of the music was pretty good most people had cheap tape players that masked most of the defects.
Even if you use top notch professional analog recording gear, there's STILL loss of data, especially if you want to make a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy... you get the idea. If properly encoded, a 10th generation MP3 copy will be truly identical to the original.
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PliotronX
My Katamari's Bigger Than Your Katamari
join:2000-05-13
Sunland, CA
| Such is the nature of analog, true. However, there is generational loss with transcoding lossy-compressed content. When digital can be copied bit for bit it's the same as the original lossy-compressed content, but who are they kidding calling satellite radio CD-quality? I'd hate to hear what they call cassette quality. |
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