08-16-2019, 11:55 PM
(08-14-2019, 07:45 AM)Hintergrund Wrote: Yeah, 3T's are the times when technology spreads to the mainstream.
Heavily the technology of hedonism and entertainment. This is when the VCR and the compact disc player, and eventually the DVD player, became cheap enough to be commonplace.
High fidelity came earlier, of course.
It is telling that there has been little innovation in the mass market for something so obvious as Blu-Ray, let alone 4K music fidelity. Blu-Ray can compress sound into really-convenient packages with little seeming loss. Maybe it is the recording business that frustrates change.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.