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by hedgehog_irl 1376 days ago
Some of it is nostalgia sure you say film degrades after every run But to counter that argument every time a sound or image is made digital it degrades due to quantisation noise that is added. High bit rates help but it's just an artifact of the digital world
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Quantization noise can be dithered below the threshold of perceptibility.
True and agree and but digital is still only ever a close approximation. The way the tech works is all it ever can be. It gets to the point where you can't notice but it's still a very good approximation
I will accept this only if you agree that analog is also only ever a close approximation.

The Nyquist limit is real and exists in the analog domain just as much as it does in the digital domain.