Popular Post Don Hills Posted December 31, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted December 31, 2017 4 hours ago, GUTB said: Sigh. Look, when MQA introduces DRM, then we can can all point to when they said otherwise and call Stuart a liar. Until then, it’s just an imaginary boogeyman. On the contrary, it's very real. The encryption scheme used is very good (and expensive). You can bet that it was included to make MQA more attractive to the record labels. And you can also bet the labels will be tempted to use it if MQA becomes the dominant format. Another problem with MQA is that it requires specific hardware. What happens when/if MQA dies in the marketplace and DAC manufacturers stop paying the license fee and drop support in their new DACs? There have already been several cases where DRM schemes have folded, leaving people with music they can no longer play. And for those who say that you can still play the undecoded MQA, remember that the currently encoded MQA files don't use the optional degradation functions. The undecoded quality can be reduced to a level where you can barely recognise the music being played. Sonic77, MrMoM and plissken 1 1 1 "People hear what they see." - Doris Day The forum would be a much better place if everyone were less convinced of how right they were. Link to comment
Popular Post Don Hills Posted January 1, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted January 1, 2018 2 hours ago, GUTB said: ... This is not DRM, as there is no rights management or enforcement mechanism. If such DRM mechanisms show up in the future, we can all call Stuart and MQA liars. The mechanism is there, it's just not being used yet. It's like HDCP in the HDMI spec. It wasn't used in the early days. Now that the interface is ubiquitous, it is being used. plissken, Shadders, Tsarnik and 1 other 4 "People hear what they see." - Doris Day The forum would be a much better place if everyone were less convinced of how right they were. Link to comment
Don Hills Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 2 minutes ago, Don Hills said: Edit error. "People hear what they see." - Doris Day The forum would be a much better place if everyone were less convinced of how right they were. Link to comment
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