>> There's a good reason for that: every time you point your eyes 
>> somewhere else, all the exposure settings automatically change! ;-)
> 
> Of course, but it doesn't affect the fact that 8bit/channel is nowhere 
> near enough to give a realistic looking image.

Well... it looks fine to me, that's all I'm saying. ;-)

>> Now there's interesting. Do you have a reference for that? Last I 
>> heard, DVD audio typically has lossy compression applied to it...
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Video#Audio_data

OK, well that's pretty weird. I wonder why they suddenly changed it to 
48 kHz then...?

>> [I gather there is a thing called "Super Audio CD", but it hasn't 
>> really taken off because nobody can hear the difference.]
> 
> Or rather, in the majority of hi-fi systems it is not the 16bit/44kHz 
> source data that is the limiting factor on the quality.

Not by a *long* shot! ;-)

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