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Technology up until 1999!

Replies: 14 — Last Post July 9 9:30am by Micus

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Yeah that was the worst. The audio was really bad. I was just listening to an interview from 1986 and it was only audio. It was the worst thing I've ever heard (not really THE worst) but it was sooo bad.
Every time I try to listen to music from the 70s, 80s or 90s I get this distortion. It's the new music that sounds acceptable but I don't like a lot of what's coming out.
I also watch these videos that are from the late 70s all the way to the early 2000s and the quality is bad.
How would audio and video technology change in the future? can you explain in details please?

I'm not that picky about quality it's just that I can tell it's pretty bad.

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Well, as each thing came out in its day, it was seen as the best thing, the hottest shit.

HD is stunningly life-like, though, I doubt its going to get much better than that.

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High-def will become more common, we'll eventually popularise and make it easier to record 3D visual data, more accurate sound recordings and better surround sound, etc.

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and by what year do you all estimate that we would get this really good quality??

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Back in my day we didn't have your fancy-pants MP3s, we would hold a cassette player up to the television or the radio and record music off of there. And we walked uphill both ways in the snow, and liked it, got dang it.

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Quote: from JeanClaude at 3:37 pm on July 5, 2008

Back in my day we didn't have your fancy-pants MP3s, we would hold a cassette player up to the television or the radio and record music off of there. And we walked uphill both ways in the snow, and liked it, got dang it.

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what are you listening to that sounds distorted? the trend from the 80s especially in terms of cd recordings has been viciously ravishing all audio recordings, in terms of quality things tend to be more fucked than they used to be

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Quote: from SovSull at 3:44 pm on July 5, 2008

what are you listening to that sounds distorted? the trend from the 80s especially in terms of cd recordings has been viciously ravishing all audio recordings, in terms of quality things tend to be more fucked than they used to be

I'm listening to radio interviews from the 80s and plus they're on YouTube

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what specifically are you listening to? recording capabilities were actually pretty decent even some decades back but if its homemade audio and video the recordings tend to be absolutely terrible

i thought you were talking about music or something. i was reading an article today called "the death of dynamic range" showing how audio quality is actually getting progressively worse

Post edited at 3:48 pm on July 5, 2008 by SovSull

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Quote: from SovSull at 3:48 pm on July 5, 2008

what specifically are you listening to? recording capabilities were actually pretty decent even some decades back but if its homemade audio and video the recordings tend to be absolutely terrible
i thought you were talking about music or something. i was reading an article today called "the death of dynamic range" showing how audio quality is actually getting progressively worse

well i listened to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_PvsCY3pLc

it's in spanish, but i mean, that's in like 1987 or 1986

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its not totally terrible. its not great but its not nails on a chalkboard either, you can make the words out fine. the thing i like least about it is the music.

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Quote: from SovSull at 3:48 pm on July 5, 2008

what specifically are you listening to? recording capabilities were actually pretty decent even some decades back but if its homemade audio and video the recordings tend to be absolutely terrible
i thought you were talking about music or something. i was reading an article today called "the death of dynamic range" showing how audio quality is actually getting progressively worse

Agree with this guy. I just read that article. It makes a lot of sense XD

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I listen to plenty of older recordings (mainly music) and it really depends on who was doing the recording and how much money the sound equipment cost. Better equipment meant better sound quality and it was up to the recording engineer to record it right and know how to use a soundboard. Recording decent quality was more than running through a laptop.

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Quote: from Micus at 6:35 pm on July 5, 2008

Well, as each thing came out in its day, it was seen as the best thing, the hottest shit.
HD is stunningly life-like, though, I doubt its going to get much better than that.

Srsly? Never doubt technology.

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Quote: from i r sekz at 4:48 am on July 9, 2008

Quote: from Micus at 6:35 pm on July 5, 2008
Well, as each thing came out in its day, it was seen as the best thing, the hottest shit.
HD is stunningly life-like, though, I doubt its going to get much better than that.

Srsly? Never doubt technology.

To clarify, I mean television as we know it.

3D television, or interactive programming will inevitably come out at some point, I'm sure.

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