How Much Does the Average Consumer Care About Resolution?
At the moment, phone companies tout the imaging capabilities of their phone cameras and try to outdo each other. It is clear that for a proportion of buyers, image quality matters and is a draw factor towards increased sales. The trend is towards ever higher resolution phone camera sensors and some people may wonder if the upwards trend will continue to infinity and beyond. Yet there is another component of the smart phone whose resolution is well behind digital resolutions achieved back in the 1980s and which shows no trend towards improvement, and that is with audio sound quality. In the 1980s, Sony and Phillips put together a file protocol known as the Red Book Protocol achieving 16-bit Linear PCM (pulse-code modulation) sampled at 44.1 kHz. Today, ultra high resolution PCM protocols go up to 32-bits and 768kHz sampling. The Sony CDP-101 released in 1982 used an audio file protocol with a much higher resolution than the majority of modern listeners utilise today when listenin...