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I'm glad that somebody besides me is exposing this horrible media quality. I've been spreading it word of mouth until now.

I would like to add that most music listeners, especially younger than 40, are not aware that they are missing out on much of the beauty built into original produced recordings. Most of them down even own any CDs or even know what a CD is. I used to have a joke about kids who don't know what an LP is. NOw I have updated the joke. Kids don't know what a CD is!

I bought a $3000 stereo for my Mercedes, with build in XM, Ipod and CD players. I could tell without looking if it was XM, Ipod or CD... easily. Here's how I do it. It it sounds completely crappy, it's XM. If it sounds ok, but not beautiful, it's Ipod. If it makes me cry, it's CD.

XM has a marketing strategy where they say there music is "digital quality". They fooled me too in the beginning. There are several different variations of digital quality. Let the buyer be ware - it is way below original production quality.

When you buy a song from Itunes, don't think that it's original production quality.

Here's how I break it down:

44,100 | *
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360 | *
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96 | *
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XM/Surrus IPOD CD

This graph is not proportionally accurate.

If you love music, buy yourself a good system and buy yourself some CDs.

Love,

Josh
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missing codecs  aitor_ibarra | 01/18/08
more lies - explained  joshuabglickman@... | 01/18/08
sad but true  aitor_ibarra | 01/18/08
OMG, don't get me started on XM or Sirius  georgeou | 01/18/08
The HD in HD Radio does not stand for high definition!!  mrOSX | 01/21/08
Now one note here, people like to compare this fake HD to MP3s  georgeou | 01/18/08
Now you have peaked my curiousity.  nucrash | 01/21/08
I just did the math. You can google up the other info  georgeou | 01/21/08
I'm not a fanboy...  mysterious1der | 01/18/08
Great work today  Bill4 | 01/18/08
Glad to hear it's helpful  georgeou | 01/18/08
Do you know what the term HD means?  Vurbal@... | 01/18/08
Overcompressed HD is low-fidelity HD  georgeou | 01/18/08
I agree  wackoae | 01/18/08
Yes it is  Vurbal@... | 01/18/08
Fake or crap, that's minor stuff  georgeou | 01/18/08
HD does not have a specific definition  frank_s | 01/19/08
I'm referring to HD video  Vurbal@... | 01/19/08
you're right, but...  lostarchitect | 01/19/08
Misinformation is misinformation  Vurbal@... | 01/19/08
Would this be considered HD?  NonZealot | 01/19/08
No it's not  Vurbal@... | 01/19/08
So long as they label their products with "no guarantee on quality"  georgeou | 01/20/08
Of course you will  Vurbal@... | 01/20/08
Yes, it is.  CobraA1 | 01/21/08
clarification  JetJaguar | 01/23/08
THAT is not HD...  dclhacker | 01/19/08
Vurbal it's useless...  CowLauncher | 01/19/08
Wow, that's a new one on me. HD not suppose to mean quality?  georgeou | 01/19/08
Then you must be a videophile.  Grayson Peddie | 01/20/08
It IS crap!  Sabz5150 | 01/21/08
"Isn't that the main selling point of High Definition?"  jacarter3 | 01/21/08
High Def's selling point and quality  Sabz5150 | 01/21/08
We all expect quality  jacarter3 | 01/21/08
We are not talking about being fooled  Cayble | 01/23/08
HD is for television is kinda like...  jasonp@... | 01/21/08
Congrats  jacarter3 | 01/21/08
Okay, answer this one simple question  Sabz5150 | 01/21/08
I sure dunno  jacarter3 | 01/21/08
Here is the incentive  IMHOYAAAH | 01/21/08
Alternative to broadcast technology  Sabz5150 | 01/22/08
Yes But...  andyman01 | 01/23/08
So if I scale up a 16x16 icon to the proper resolution, it's "HD"? Cool!  CobraA1 | 01/21/08
If I have 1440 by 900 pixels  jacarter3 | 01/21/08
I think George is more concerned with the should be rather than the is . .  CobraA1 | 01/21/08
Don't let them  jjwalters3@... | 02/04/08
Ridiculous reply  Cayble | 01/20/08
 jacarter3 | 01/21/08
Possibly the saddest reply in history.  Cayble | 01/23/08
High DEFINITION means, um, DEFINITION  lalogos | 02/07/08
sorry -- hit submit by accident ... let me finish ..  lalogos | 02/07/08
The quality will never be better  pablo Dante | 01/20/08
Exactly!  Grayson Peddie | 01/20/08
Left out MS  Richard Flude | 01/20/08
Hey you got me all figured out! I like high quality video and fast CPUs  georgeou | 01/21/08
we may disagree on pranks...  lostarchitect | 01/19/08
HD is the future!  ballmerclone2@... | 01/19/08
They should ban the use of "HD" for such transmissions.  el1jones | 01/19/08
RE: Here's what fake HD video looks like  BCF1968 | 01/19/08
Should he add a column for numbnut's Dark Knight WMV?  blow110@... | 01/19/08
Trailers are short and they jack up the bit-rate  georgeou | 01/19/08
Getting hung up on technicalities  croberts | 01/19/08
George where does DivX fit in?  D. T. Schmitz | 01/19/08
DivX, XVID, and QuickTime 6 use MPEG4-ASP  georgeou | 01/19/08
Sony and AMD Xilleon  D. T. Schmitz | 01/20/08
BitTorrent will get killed if EFF and FreePress gets their way with metered  georgeou | 01/20/08
Not user I follow this  D. T. Schmitz | 01/21/08
watch yourself  BCF1968 | 01/20/08
Some Real HD, courtesy of the BBC  kunkie@... | 01/20/08
We can host it for you without all those crazy ads  georgeou | 01/20/08
See post 40 from Georges first story...  mankydonut@... | 01/20/08
RE: Here's what fake HD video looks like  msadvertising@... | 01/20/08
Not always....  UncleBubba | 01/21/08
BBC Screengrabs  kunkie@... | 01/21/08
americans dont care about video quality  slawless | 01/21/08
We care...  Eriamjh | 01/21/08
Too bad VHS is missing ....  kd5auq | 01/21/08
I've heard of VHS. Interesting.  D. T. Schmitz | 01/21/08
shouldn't the word "dongle" be in your post? (n/m)  lostarchitect | 01/21/08
Regarding DirecTV HD chanels  toadlife | 01/21/08
No, some of their signals are transcoded from MPEG-2  georgeou | 01/21/08
So why...  toadlife | 01/22/08
I have no idea, I wish they'd encode everything good  georgeou | 01/22/08
Ahhhh, Vurbal and CowLauncher are just bothered .....  rmhesche | 01/21/08
nice table  patibulo | 01/22/08
Blu-ray and HD DVD both support each other's codecs  georgeou | 01/22/08
Directv has full HD (not lite)  ncjeffgus@... | 01/25/08
Actually, DIRECTV still dropped the resolution on HBO  georgeou | 01/26/08
Another Analyst Who Know's Today but not Tomorrow  kwilson@... | 01/30/08
Sad knowledge on your part  georgeou | 10/10/08
RE: Here's what fake HD video looks like  msadvertising@... | 03/04/08

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