[SurroundSound] Re: Dolby TrueHD upscaling

Probably more than 2 different animals and some veg & minerals too I
expect :lol:
Variable bit rate dependent on bandwidth sounds like a proper location
lottery but also a case of only those who can afford it get it. iTunes
sucks! I wont have anything to do with it.

On May 25, 5:26 pm, August Bleed <bleed...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Apple thing sounds nearly identical to the patent that Neil Young was
> applying for: ie HD music at a variable bitrate via the cloud to portable
> devices.  While this seems to be the direction the industry is going I
> personally am still a big fan of having my own media not dependent upon any
> kind of connection to play it.  I consider even a place on my hard drive
> more of a concrete ownership experience than anything in the cloud.  Of
> course, what Apple considers HD and what we might consider HD may be two
> completely different animals.
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> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Steven Sullivan <ssu...@panix.com> wrote:
> > What's interesting (to me) is 1) that Apple is getting into Spotify-type
> > music delivery at all; they've already dipped their toe in with iTunes
> > Match (which lets you play your own music collection from the cloud and
> > upgrades the quality if your version is <256kbps  AAC), and what's it all
> > mean for the iTunes Store? and 2) that they intend to maintain an archive
> > 'HD' quality tracks for delivery over this system (delivery to be at
> > various quality levels, depending on bandwidth)
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> > Once this gets going shouldn't be too hard to tell if a stream is truly
> > 'HD' or not.
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> > > Marketing nonsense. I wouldn't believe a word they say.
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> > > On May 24, 10:38 pm, Tab Cursor <tabcur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> This is a cool thread.
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> > >> I want to point out another "rumour?" I just got with my Home Theater
> > >> Magazine sub this month.
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> > >> "A New Apple Audio File
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> > >> format would allow adaptive streaming of cloud-based content at
> > >> different
> > >> levels of quality, reports 'The Guardian' Said one anonymous source
> > >> quoted
> > >> by the British daily, 'All of a sudden, all you audio from iTunes is in
> > >> HD
> > >> rather than AAC'..."
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> > >> Since Apple has all the revenue, why not? After all, what are all those
> > >> Petabytes for?
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> > >> On Friday, May 18, 2012 3:21:03 PM UTC-7, Blee...@yahoo.com wrote:
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> > >> > Here is an article on the Dolby TrueHD format and how they intend to
> > >> > upsample music to 24/96 for BluRay.
> > >> >http://www.stereophile.com/content/dolby174-upsamples-apodizes-truehd
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> > >> > August
> > >> > Bleed, Inc.
> > >> > Selling Art Is Tying Your Ego To a Leash And Walking It Like a Dog
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