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Old March 12th 09, 10:59 PM posted to uk.rec.audio
Dave Plowman (News)
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Default A new "Fidelity Index" - vinyl, CD, etc.

In article ,
David Looser wrote:
It's interesting to see archive material from the 1970s to see just
how bad (by current standards) the technical quality of so much TV of
that period was. This, of course, is in terms of production, rather
than transmission, but it does show just how much standards have
improved.


To be fair, a great deal of it has suffered from poor archiving -
transferring decent original tapes using clapped out or poorly lined up
machines, etc. '70s stuff *at its best* would look little different from
todays.

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