In the 80s, a revolutionary silver disc was offered to the masses. A joint development with Philips and Sony. It offered 16bit/44.1KHz lossless audio. In many cases, printed artwork & packaging too.
In the 90s it became popular to extract said discs and use them with computers. They offered the best mass-market audio experience. The discs could be ripped to any format the customer desired. Flavour-of-the-month, lossless FLAC, mp3, Ogg Vorbis, etc.
The choices were unlimited. Free software from the net and more recently, open codecs have heavily influenced audio hardware development.
Oh wait these discs still exist. So does the software.
The excitement about removing Digital Rights Restrictions from sub-par expensive lossy audio tracks is what, exactly?
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tekdroid @ Sep 2nd 2006 4:02PM
In the 80s, a revolutionary silver disc was offered to the masses. A joint development with Philips and Sony. It offered 16bit/44.1KHz lossless audio. In many cases, printed artwork & packaging too.
In the 90s it became popular to extract said discs and use them with computers. They offered the best mass-market audio experience. The discs could be ripped to any format the customer desired. Flavour-of-the-month, lossless FLAC, mp3, Ogg Vorbis, etc.
The choices were unlimited. Free software from the net and more recently, open codecs have heavily influenced audio hardware development.
Oh wait these discs still exist. So does the software.
The excitement about removing Digital Rights Restrictions from sub-par expensive lossy audio tracks is what, exactly?