Posted by Jeff Rife on 04/10/06 14:48

Allan (Spamsuckhard@finallykantica22admitstobebrianlamb.org) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-ed-hddvd10apr10,1,7088547.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california&ctrack=1&cset=true
>
> "IF THEY WANT A GLIMPSE OF THEIR own future, Hollywood executives
> should take a peek at the latest year-end report from the Recording
> Industry Assn. of America. It's not a pretty picture. There, amid the
> statistics about declining CD sales and booming music downloads, are
> the grim numbers for the higher-fidelity formats once billed as the
> music industry's Next Big Thing. Their sluggish performance suggests
> what could happen to the two competing high-definition video formats
> that Hollywood will soon try to sell, HD-DVD and Blu-ray."

Someone with actual brains might realize that ultra-high-quality audio
sources don't help once you download the music to an iPod, yet even
on a 7" portable screen, you'll be able to see the difference between
SD and HD (as long as the screen has enough pixels).

Then, too, there's the limit of human senses. At 48kHz/16-bit, you're
approaching the theoretical limit of the human ear, and passing the
actual limit for many people. OTOH, even 1920x1080 on a 7" screen is
nowhere close to the limit that the average human eye can resolve.

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