Surely there is a point, because Moore's Law is exponential where it just becomes too much hassle to do the encoding and decoding because storing and carrying the data raw will have reached "free".
2010/1/26 Mo McRoberts <m...@nevali.net> > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 15:41, Brian Butterworth <briant...@freeview.tv> > wrote: > > Storage and bandwidth is almost getting to the point where we could use > raw > > PCM... > > Well, there's not a lot of point when there's lossless compression > which can contain metadata (FLAC[0], ALAC, etc) :) > > M. > > > [0] I *think* FLAC supports embedded metadata? haven't used it in > years, to be honest. > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
