NTLK Re: Questions, questions...

From: Stainless Steel Rat (ratinox@peorth.gweep.net)
Date: Fri Apr 28 2000 - 22:47:22 CDT


* <gopi@sloth.org> on Fri, 28 Apr 2000
| That's not "compression" in the digital data sense. And it is _not_
| similar to MD in any way at all.

Bit-rate reduction is one of many forms of compression.

| Since CDs are sampled at 44.1kHz, there is no possible way that you'll
| get a frequency higher than 22.5kHz.

22.05kHz. The phenomenon is called 'aliasing'.

| They're not "compressed" to remove this; it's simply a physical
| impossibility to record a higher sampling rate than that.

Errors aside, how does this contradict anything I wrote? Data loss,
bit-rate reduction, lossy compression, whatever you want to call it, it
ammounts to the same thing. And why are we still discussing this on the
Newton mailing list?

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