lossless

It would be silly to send uncompressed HD video to the Apple TV when lossless or nearly lossless compression could be used.

I wasn't aware jpeg 2000 had a lossless mode (nor that it generally compressed better than other lossless formats).

The vision is that the lossless versions can be updated to the latest and greatest formats over time and the smaller versions can be recreated as needed.

And since all of this is lossless, it's not as if you're locking into a format.

Nor was I aware a number of archive institutions have standardized their DAM/Archiving on lossless jpeg 2000.

Is it possible to detect the difference between 320kbps streaming and 192kHz/24bit lossless?

And whenever I [rarely] buy digital downloads, I will only pay for lossless file formats.

I'm not saying the author's claim is valid, nor invalid, just that it's not completely impossible he was hearing it was not lossless.

Then I discovered that almost all my lossless files had been replaced by inferior substitutes, which Apple had explicitly promised would never happen.

[0][1] Yet, the vast majority of people cannot tell the difference between 256kbps MP3 and lossless, let alone between 320kbps MP3 and lossless (tested many times, for example: [2]).

In the case of digital forms of the same media, they're stored in high resolution, lossless formats for archival purposes and then down sampled for day to day use.

It wasn't until OGG and lossless WMA seemed like they might put a little pressure on Apple's business model that they increased their bitrates and made it possible to remove the DRM.

However, if the binary parser was lossless, all changes to the parsed structure would preverse the "trivia", so serializing is straight forward.

Lossless sound is one of the biggest points of differentiation that Tidal is trying to make for itself, but so far the scope of their classical offerings and the quality of their metadata have been a disappointment." This person has never ABX tested 160kbps lossy versus lossless.