The Next Track ♫ Episode #57 – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Optical Discs
Jun 16, 2017
33:53
Andy Doe joins us to take a close look at optical discs: CDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays, but also HDCDs, DVD-As, and more. I bet you didn’t know how many kinds of optical disc there are…
“It is the betamax of audio formats…”
Show notes:
- Optical disc – Wikipedia
- Compact disc – Wikipedia
- Compact Disc Digital Audio – Wikipedia
- Close to the Edge
- Nyquist frequency – Wikipedia
- 44,100 Hz – Wikipedia
- Error detection and correction
- Pulse-code modulation
- Super Audio CD
- Hybrid disc
- DVD-Audio
- Mode Records DVD-A releases
- High Fidelity Pure Audio (Blu-Ray Audio)
- HDCD
- Grateful Dead
- Cambridge Audio 651BD
- Compressed audio optical disc (MP3 CD)
Our next tracks:
- Kirk: Miles Davis: Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings, 1951-1956
- Doug: Slim Gaillard: Slim Gaillard Rides Again
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Special Guest: Andy Doe.