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Re:Vintage digicams aren't just a fad. They're an artistic s... by nayuki on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @07:28PM (#42313297)
Good questions. CD distortion include hard clipping from amplifying too much, whereas vacuum tubes and magnetic tape have soft saturation (still a distortion, just a different kind). Another distortion is that dynamic range compression is used, bringing up the volume of quiet parts of a song.

As for digital video jitter, I can think of MPEG compression artifacts, both spatial (e.g. DCT mosquito noise) and temporal (e.g. motion compensation errors, periodic keyframe refreshes).

Re:Vintage digicams aren't just a fad. They're an artistic s... by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @07:55PM (#42313463)
That is bad mastering, not an inherent property of CDs.
Re:Vintage digicams aren't just a fad. They're an artistic s... by shiroiushi on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @08:33PM (#42313669)
It's not, but it's very, very common, basically the rule in fact, starting I think in the early 2000s.