Space Ritual + DVD

[Stephen Swann]

On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:14:04PM +0100, Paul Mather wrote:
> On 20 May 2007, at 4:37 PM, Stephen Swann wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 08:18:08PM +0100, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
> >>On 19 May 2007, at 14:23, Stephen Swann wrote:
> >>>It actually does distress me that all current formats are
> >>>either fragile or lossy.
> >>
> >>Well, vinyl was also kinda fragile and lossy ....
> >
> >I was including vinyl and mag-tape in that statement.  :)
> >Only an uncompressed digital solution, with error correction
> >as part of the storage format will make me happy.
> 
> I think I missed the start of this thread, but aren't you describing  
> good ol' pre-existing CD audio discs here?  Or are you saying you  
> want MORE error correction?

I was just referencing the fact that audio CDs are
remarkably difficult to extract an exact bit-for-bit copy of
the audio data from, thus making it very hard to back up or
convert to another storage format.  I know there *is* error
correction data in there, but it requires somewhat
specialized equipment and software, correctly configured, to
make use of it, and even then it's an iffy business...

Steve