[gregsq]

Film is 24/48 so 16/44.1 isn't what you'd call a studio master in general. A lot of music used in film originates from 44.1k CD's but then you have up sampling to add to the workflow. 16/44.1k is becoming something of an anachronism.

[ArkyBeagle]

It is certainly difficult to find 16 bit hardware. I bought a new 16 channel interface in 2013 and it basically doesn't work at 16 bit. I wonder if the drivers aren't broken.

MP3s generally have a base sampling rate of 44.1 still. It is unfortunate that both CD and film were not at the same sampling rate.

24 bits is fine for tracking but it's overkill for the end delivery format. This is especially true since most audio on even Blu-Ray is lossy-encoded anyway. You can't hear it often, but the irony of "HD audio quality" is amusing.