Petition to save HDDVD

[Gustin Johnson]

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Larry Lines wrote:
|> Cory K. schrieb:
|> Christopher Stamper wrote:
|>> Who cares? I'm not using either. Ever.
|>>
|>> That's fine stick with your crappy, downloaded, lossy MP3s. ;)
|>>
|>> -Cory
|>>
|> Vinyl is still the best - I used to listen to MP§ for the last 2 or so
|> years, ripped each CD I bought to OGG before I played it from HD since I
|> cannot stand the noises from the DVD-Drive but in the last 4 Months I
|> exhumed my record player and despite the crackles my LPs are so
|> overwhelming better in terms of dynamics and detail, that I tend to use
|> compressed files only for audiobooks now.
|>
|> CDs I listen to on my car-CD but if I really want to hear music at home
|> the black disks are number one again for me...
|>
| Yes definitely.  I participated in building a series of studios at a movie
| facility.  In the end, the rooms were amazing and we had purchased and
| installed millions of dollars of digital equipment.  One day someone 
brought
| in a turntable and we plugged it into the speakers and played the same 
album
| on CD through the equipment we had just installed.  The CD was terrible in
| comparison.  These advances in digital technology
| are still just a shell of the original high fidelity they try to emulate.
| Even worse, our ears and eyes are getting used to it.  Almost all digital
| formats
| of music have been very bad for quality of music.  I can't even listen 
to an
| MP3
| without wondering the whole time what I am missing.
|
| Larry Lines
I have grown up with both vinyl and CD (I am in my 30s).  The crackles 
and the constant noise irritate me, especially since I do not have that 
nostalgic emotional connection that _can_ cloud ones subjective judgement.

A proper 24/96 digital recording can capture the same frequency range as 
vinyl (well, it exceeds a human's ability to tell the difference, there 
are limits to what we can hear) and therefore be indistinguishable from 
vinyl, except of course for the artifacts created by the mechanical 
reproduction.

Having said that, I know a lot of people who experience vinyl 
differently than I.  They truly believe that vinyl sounds better.  
Neither experience is necessarily right or wrong, just different.

Honestly, this argument is just like the vi(m) emacs wars, the Mac vs 
everyone else, and so on.  It reduces to personal preference, period.
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