Thread: Why are lossy audio DVD's acceptable?
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Old 2008-01-02, 01:23 PM
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Re: Why are lossy audio DVD's acceptable?
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Originally Posted by vladsmythe View Post
Anything recorded off television before digital broadcast was compressed sound, so LPCM of lossy sound is still lossy.
don't confuse dynamics compression with data compression! Analog dynamic compression is not "lossy", like we talk about when digital audio is encoded to a "lossy" data compression scheme like MP3 ot AC3.
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