Will iTunes Look Bad On My TV?

[onyx527]

Originally Posted by Fiffy

A lot of this is confirmation bias. After doing a number of blind tests, I'm convinced that the vast majority of people can't hear a difference in most movies when you get to 640 kbps or higher, as long as they don't know a priori what they are listening to. Once you get to >1 Mbps (e.g. the old 1.5 Mbps DD+ tracks that were commonly used on HD-DVD) it's virtually identical to lossless, but without the drawback of having to deal with variable bitrates.

I think you’re correct which is why audio has never been given full attention to try and get as close to lossless as possible. What they’ve got is “good enough” and most consumers can’t tell the difference.

You get to Home Theater enthusiasts like us and we can tell the difference immediately without even comparing a stream to a disc. But we’re a small segment. However that said with this new world we’re entering, home viewing is seeing a huge spike so maybe they’ll start giving audio its due

In the looks department iTunes is almost the same as disc, it’s just audio that is preventing me from moving over fully to digital