Sigh, I need to remember to never read the YouTube comments on @Techmoan videos. There is *always* a huge misguided discussion about analog vs. digital that raises my blood pressure. Your argument is invalid unless you have ABX tests to back it. Hint: digital does.
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Analog is great and fun and fascinating and good analog can sound great but. Stop. Claiming. It's. Fundamentally. Better. Than. Digital. It just isn't. Ever. CDs can reproduce the entirety of the human hearing range under all practical conditions. Full stop.
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If you the words "infinite sample rates" or "time resolution" or "16 bits of dynamic range" or "24bit/192k" are now popping into your head as counterarguments, you need to watch this video and try again: https://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml …
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This is for audio Marcan but for video there is a totally different story. Even analog film reels from the sixties are now rescanned to new 4K masters. The resolution is very high.
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Yes, sorry, I didn't specify. I'm talking about audio. We have reached resolution transparency for video (smartphone screen densities) but there are a lot more problems to overcome (e.g. dynamic range) and consumer technology isn't there yet for movies.
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Well I'm not talking about mobile HDR10+ but just compression vs lossless video.
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Compression is an entirely different subject. Of course it's a lot easier to manipulate uncompressed audio, but video codecs are reaching the point of transparency at doable bitrates too.
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H265 you mean? There are much better alternatives. VP9 is progressing fast.
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Any of the latest wave of codecs really. I mean, you can easily stream 1gbps over the network or from an HDD these days, that's a lot of bits to throw at video encoding. Of course it's never going to be as lightweight as audio, but it's *doable*.
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I'm not sure if there are good ABX tests of video encoding at high bitrates, but given a quick research I'd wager that even h.264 at a crf yielding ~50mbps for most sources should be pretty much transparent for 1080p.
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H264 is outdated if you see the
@streamingmedia whitepapers for the new formats. Very informative platform.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes - Show replies
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