"They sell a device which goes between the data source and the mastering equiptment, so it can't be fiddling with the format too much. I would guess that they screw with the formatting information that gets written (such as the block headers and whatnot)"
I work in a matering studio, and there are definately a million and one wacky things that can be put between the editing workstation and the master recorder. What I want to know is what data they're miffing to create this 'copy protection'. Is it just a botched header so that the disc can't be read by a CD-ROM drive, or is the audio continuously encrypted? The don't say two words on their site about how their process actually works.
"CD quality is "good enough," and I don't see an improvement in quality really making a different." Alex
Ahhhh But have you ever heard 96kHz/24-bit audio? There is a very noticable difference between the DVD-audio standard and Red Book 16-bit audio. Until we can match the imaging and frequency response of analog tape there is definately a place for better digital audio formats. I've heard 24/96 audio and it is a Good Thing. (and Sony's Super Audio CD is a Better Thing.) One the RIAA realizes that people don't wan't to pay $25 for an album and we can afford the players, I'm sure we'll all laugh about how we thought "CD quality" was such a great thing way back in the 90's. Ma'at.
With NS 4.0 and a standard install of QT 4 on a Mac, all the PNG's load just fine. My QT 4 install didn't do anything to reset my helper apps, which someone else suggested as a possibility. Maybe the PNG Fairy has been fooling with yr machine.
In reading through the Amazon.com patent, they've also snuck a bit in about adding products to a "shopping cart" with a single click. And if you look down at the bottom of the patent's page, there are buttons for "Add to Cart" and "Buy". Not being a patent lawyer I'm not sure how solid Amazon's claims on "Add to Cart" are with this patent, but the possible irony of a patent being violated on the Patent Office page it's posted on brightened my morning.
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"They sell a device which goes between the data source and the mastering equiptment, so it can't be fiddling with the format too much. I would guess that they screw with the formatting information that gets written (such as the block headers and whatnot)"
I work in a matering studio, and there are definately a million and one wacky things that can be put between the editing workstation and the master recorder. What I want to know is what data they're miffing to create this 'copy protection'. Is it just a botched header so that the disc can't be read by a CD-ROM drive, or is the audio continuously encrypted? The don't say two words on their site about how their process actually works.
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"CD quality is "good enough," and I don't see an improvement in quality really making a different." Alex
Ahhhh But have you ever heard 96kHz/24-bit audio? There is a very noticable difference between the DVD-audio standard and Red Book 16-bit audio. Until we can match the imaging and frequency response of analog tape there is definately a place for better digital audio formats. I've heard 24/96 audio and it is a Good Thing. (and Sony's Super Audio CD is a Better Thing.) One the RIAA realizes that people don't wan't to pay $25 for an album and we can afford the players, I'm sure we'll all laugh about how we thought "CD quality" was such a great thing way back in the 90's. Ma'at.
With NS 4.0 and a standard install of QT 4 on a Mac, all the PNG's load just fine. My QT 4 install didn't do anything to reset my helper apps, which someone else suggested as a possibility. Maybe the PNG Fairy has been fooling with yr machine.
In reading through the Amazon.com patent, they've also snuck a bit in about adding products to a "shopping cart" with a single click. And if you look down at the bottom of the patent's page, there are buttons for "Add to Cart" and "Buy". Not being a patent lawyer I'm not sure how solid Amazon's claims on "Add to Cart" are with this patent, but the possible irony of a patent being violated on the Patent Office page it's posted on brightened my morning.