Latexxx
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I see two reasons why it was surprising that Sony didn't implement pcm in their hd line.
1. Competitors have support for lossless/uncompressed music.
2. Implementing pcm is a piece of cake because you can just feed the stream directly to a dac.
Originally Posted by SDLeMire No, it's not lossless. Lossless only refers to compression codecs. WAV, AIFF, PCM, etc. are uncompressed. And the PCM capability of HiMD probably had more to do with recording than music playback, so it's not surprising to not see it on their HDD players. |
I see two reasons why it was surprising that Sony didn't implement pcm in their hd line.
1. Competitors have support for lossless/uncompressed music.
2. Implementing pcm is a piece of cake because you can just feed the stream directly to a dac.