Video CD and Analogue vs Digital

[matt@tecc.co.uk]

> From: Anders Hultman <anders.hultman@unisource.se>
> Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
> Subject: Re: VID'S
> Date: 23 Nov 1994 14:55:49 GMT
> Organization: Unisource Business Networks Sweden AB
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>>         Just in case you didn't know, you can now get Kate's Hammersmith
>> video from PMI on Video CD (also known as CD-I although strictly it isn't)
>> which you may or may not know is world-wide compatible.  
 
> The Hammersmith concert is also released as a "double pack" CD+video.
> The sound on the CD is better than on my bootleg of the same source.

>> The quality of
>> the encoding isn't supposed to be brilliant but is is OK and the sound is
>> very good because it is Digital Stereo (as opposed to Hi-Fi Analogue stereo
>> on modern Stereo Videos).

> I suppose there have been many a flamewar on digital vs. analouge, 
> and this is off topic, but let me point out: digital can sound 
> brilliant, but does not always sound brilliant. Analouge can sound 
> dull but does not always sound dull. E.g. reel to reel tapers and 
> hifi VHS:s (analouge) sound better than DCC and Minidisc (digital).
I> f the "encoding isn't ... brilliant", then a hifi VHS *could* sound 
> better :-)

I think I was too brief in my last note and so was a little mis-understood.
I completely agree with you Anders about the Analogue Vs Digital.  What I
was trying to say was that I have the Video and CD combined Box set (not to be 
confused with the "Video CD" which I was talking about) and the quality of the
VHS transfer leaves a little to be desired on the sound front.  The CD from the
same box has a better quality soundtrack mainly because it is a fairly cheap
product (unfortunately) and it is easy and cheap to produce a decent CD but
more effort has to be put into creating a comparible Analogue recording.  By
the way,  anybody out there have any info on Kate Laserdiscs?  My LD collection
is conspicuous by it's KB absence!  (I'm buying myself TLTC&TC for Xmas).

Bye.

Matt.

P.S If I sound at all patronising I don't mean to be !!!!!!!!!!! it's 
because I'm new to the net (two weeks) and I am not used to writing much!!  
(yet)