• average650@lemmy.world
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    I can’t speak for video, but for audio production that isn’t true. Audio signals can be perfectly reproduced, up to some frequency determined by the sample rate and up to some noise floor determined by the bit depth, digitally. Set that frequency well beyond that of human hearings and set that noise floor beyond what tape can do or what other factors determine, and you get perfect reproduction.

    See here. https://youtu.be/UqiBJbREUgU

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      The projection technology doesn’t exists yet to fully match the quality of an IMAX film print. Some places are going for LED walls to get over that projection limitation.

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      I don’t know if perfect reproduction necessarily sounds better. It’s probably subjective, but projects I’ve worked on that were tracked with tape have a quality that you can’t get from digital. I’m not talking about tape hiss or anything like that. There’s a roundness to the sound.

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        True! Analog can distort the audio in a way some people like.

        But, it is a distortion. It’s not there in the original audio. Sometimes, that is desired though.

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        Some people do like the distortion that analog audio provides, that’s true. But it is because of something that wasn’t in the original audio. It’s an artistic choice.