Did you know?

...........that streaming a movie (Netflix) will compromise picture quality as it's compressed to reach you.

But a DVD will provide the best quality.

So you have an option of either buying a DVD (as there are no Blockbusters anymore) and add to your clutter (specially when you won't be watching it again) or compromise on quality and stream.

Comments

[Veglia]

TP, are you for real??!!

Did you know that streaming music (Spotify) will compromise sound quality as it's compressed to reach you. But a CD will provide the best quality. So you have an option of either buying a CD and add to your clutter (specially when you won't be listening to the same CD often) or compromise on quality and stream.

Is this a prank?

[Gary Moser]

Never understood most people's keen interest [ obsession? ] with super-high fidelity in audio and video.

To me, the CONTENT has always been far-and-away the thing.

I mean, yes, if it's something like a symphony orchestra where you want to hear
every single note from every single instrument articulated...fine.

But some of the greatest pieces of music that I enjoy regularly
are boot-legged living-room solo piano performances by Art Tatum from the late 1940s/early 1950s.
The numerous scratches and hisses just add that much more ambience, in my book.

[Veglia]

Sore spot for me as I am an audiophile (nasty disease) but I agree content is what matters. Some of my audiophiliacs would say though that content and even spirit of music is lost if not reproduced in high fidelity. Like reading a book summary instead of the book.

[Gary Moser]

My all-time musical idol, Frank Zappa, in the early years [ say, late 1960s/early 1970s ]
would occasionally release a live recording --- sometimes an entire album, sometimes just a single track ---
where the sound was noticeably "muddy" compared to the rest of his catalog because of the sub-standard hall that
he had been booked into. On a few of those, I have lamented ever since that the overall sound quality isn't better.

But, as he explained throughout his career --- especially in the liner notes of a 12-disc series
called "You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore" --- he saw himself as a sort of musical anthropologist,
and since he was truly IMPROVISING every guitar solo he would do, instead of reproducing note-for-note
what he had done on the previously-released studio version, each performance was a unique "air sculpture".

Hence, the final uniqueness his fans got to hear was less sunny (smog-affected?) on some days than others.
But even a relatively sullied version of "The Nancy And Mary Music" from CHUNGA'S REVENGE, for example,
is worlds better for a true Zappaphile like myself than no version at all.

[Veglia]

Is Fabrice Santoro your all time favourite player to watch?

[Gary Moser]

No, not even close. Why?

[Veglia]

"he was truly IMPROVISING every guitar solo he would do, instead of reproducing note-for-note " Is this not Santoro playing tennis?

[Gary Moser]

Oh, I see what you mean.

No. Zappa's improvising greatly enhanced his serious artistic output. Kind of like Federer.

Santoro, and players of his ilk --- Gael Monfils? Dustin Brown? ---
IMO have thrown their lot in with comparative pop art, or outright entertainment...

[Leon]

How true.
Like Dustin, though. Maybe because I watch him rarely? Or not so wealthy, hehe.

[Veglia]

I see, art as entertainment as opposed to art as a way to winning. OK.