I do know that compression has gotten way more sophisticated from the late 1980's when this technology started to look viable. It's unfortunately unavoidable when you're throwing away as much as 90% of the data (!) that something gets lost along the journey.

It is ironic that in the Laserdisc days, we actually DID have uncompressed audio, although with ProLogic encoding.

We're taking giant steps BACKWARDS in some ways......

[This message has been edited by soundhound (edited February 08, 2003).]