[ProAudio] Lossless audio on YouTube

[Corey Bailey Audio Engineering]

In 1987, I attended the unveiling of Dolby Digital for 35mm film. The 
demonstration was very impressive although one could tell when the sound 
was switched, back & forth, between DD and the analog sound track which 
was Dolby SR encoded. Afterwards, I pointed out (at the time) to David 
Gray & Tom Scott, that there were less than a dozen theaters equipped to 
play an SR encoded track....world wide. This meant that the vast 
majority of theaters that installed DD, would be playing an SR encoded 
soundtrack through a system designed to play Dolby A.........UGH!

David pointed out that Dolby had done several focus groups &, much to 
his surprise, the listeners couldn't tell the difference or, didn't care.

My $0.02

CB

Corey Bailey Audio Engineering
www.baileyzone.net

On 4/23/2021 1:02 PM, Scott Dorsey via ProAudio wrote:
>> Are there any other issues I am missing?
> 1. The average viewer really doesn't care about sound quality.
>
> 2. Video people on the whole care and know less about sound quality
>     even than the average listener.
>
> These things are unfortunate.
> --scott
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