Posted by Richard Crowley on 11/29/07 01:41

"Doug McDonald" wrote ...
> Once you get to that point the effect of throwing away info is the same
> as just adding ordinary noise. People, most people, didn't scream
> and shout about added noise from tape or LPs. And they didn't talk about
> "losing information" even though that indeed was what was happening.

Masking existing information is NOT the same as
throwing it completely away without possibility of
recovery (i.e. "lossy compression").

Anyone who has cleaned a black-vinyl LP, or used
Cedar (etc.) to extract a conversation out of the noise
would agree.

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