It was encouraging, reading that CNN piece today. Particularly given a piece in the business section of our major paper this week:
Sound quality
http://www.theage.com.au/business/sound-quality-20110220-1b1 0a.html
Fingers - ears - crossed although I feel it's going to be up to us and artists to keep up the word & momentum.
In terms of iTunes, at least, curious to see if they can skip 320kb/s , let alone 1,411kb/s, and have bandwidths for 2,116.kb/s (24/44k), but it's only a matter of time -
and demand.
Still, I must say I was both pleased and disappointed that Radiohead offered their new album in both wav and mp3 formats (albeit 320kb/s apparently), when they were clearly in a position to draw a line in the sand by omitting the latter.
(As for Sony's new "unlimited" streaming service via Quriosity: "The Qriocity service streams music at 48 kilobits per second" - Shawn Layden, Sony Network's chief operating officer).