Comments by "Neil Forbes" (@neilforbes416) on "Nyquist-Shannon; The Backbone of Digital Sound" video.

  1. D - A - C: Acronym! Not "DACK": Word! Acronyms ARE NOT WORDS and should not be spoken as words. Acronyms are individual letters that represent the initials of corporations, institutions or authorities, alternatively they represent names of scientific, technical or natural phenomena or devices. *Zum beispiel: EMI stands for Electric & Musical Industries, the British-based multinational music giant that owns the Dog & Gramophone trademark, His Master's Voice among its other trademarks(Capitol being one of the lesser trademarks). Under the HMV brand, EMI manufactured a wide range of consumer electronic products like TV sets(colour and monochrome), stereo and mono record players or radio/grams and, surprisingly, whitegoods, like chest freezers and suchlike. EMI also stands for Electro-Magnetic Interference, the noise you hear when listening to AM radio(FM is susceptible but not as much) during an electric storm(lightning strikes) or when someone operates an electric motored hand-tool(saw, drill, etc.) nearby. These represent the ONLY two uses of an acronym. EMI can only be used once for the corporate identity and once for the natural phenomenon just described, its uses are thus exhausted and cannot be used again for either purpose. By the way, *Zum beispiel, is German and means "For example"!
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  2. They are ALL acronyms. NASA = National Aeronautics & Space Administration - organisation; NTSC = National Television Systems Committee - organisation; CIA = Central Intelligence(?) Agency - despicable organisation; RIAA = Recording Industry Association of America - organisation.  Here are some more, APRA = Australian Performing Rights Association - organisation; AMCO = Australian Mechanical Copyright Organisation - you guessed it! ACCC = Australian Competition & Consumers' Commission - organisation.
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  3. Mark Black, Spugintrntl and Bulk Logan, I'll address you all at once: My view of acronyms vs. words comes from my education in school during the 1960s when we'd get a cut across the hand with a feather-duster if we uttered acronyms as words...LAZY ENGLISH! We were taught to RESPECT the acronym and its purpose in grammar, unlike the sloppy, lazy way kids are taught today.
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  4. Like I said. When I was in school during the 1960s, if a teacher heard us say an acronym as a word, we'd cop a caning. Teahers today don't really teach proper English, that's why you see written examples like using your instead of you're, or There when it should be Their or They're. It's just sloppy, lazy English.
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  5. See my reply to George Jorgensen.
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  6. See my reply to George Jorgensen.
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  7. It's just lazy speech. nothing more. I don't refer to EMI(Electric & Musical Industries) as "Emmy" I call it "E-M-I" as it should be called! What about M-G-M(Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the movie and recording company), You don't refer to them as "Ummmgumm", that would sound as stupid as it looks when written!
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  8. That's a culture thing. I'm Australian. In the 1960s and 1970s we were conditioned through schooling to say acronyms as separate letters, like A - S - A - P = as soon as possible!
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  9. I have not come across that acronym.
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  10. Several acronyms sound utterly stupid if made into words. M-G-M, for example, is short for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Movie buffs will know that name from the lion roaring at the beginning of any M-G-M movie and the company also had its own record label. But would you call it M G M, or Ummgumm?
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  11. There's no difference at all! Acronyms ARE initials and initials ARE acronyms, be it for abbreviations of corporate or institutional names, or for phenomena of science, nature or technology.
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  12. The fact that Sony collaborated with Philips makes me wonder how the CD system works as well as it does at all. If Sony had collaborated with EMI or the German Siemens organisations, we might've had a far superior system. Philips is, was and always will be a RUBBISH brand.
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  13. I'm glad of one thing with the CD though. I used to buy a lot of CDs of my favourite era of music(the 1960s and 1970s) but I noticed an increasing trend of trying to pass off sound-alike versions as "original hit recordings" - a blatant lie. So I stopped buying commercial-issue CDs and started making my own, initially for use with the radio programmes I presented on community radio here in Australia. But now I've left community radio(not by choice), these CDs are made for my car's CD player instead.
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  14. The whole idea of quadraphonic sound was quite ridiculous, really. When you go to a concert tosee, say, the late, great Gene Pitney, for example. He's there on stage, IN FRONT of the audience and his backing band(or perhaps a full-blown orchestra) is behind HIM! So the sound you hear is IN FRONT of you, not around you, unless, that is, the auditorium is echoey, then the sound may bounce around the walls(like the Civic Theatre, Newcastle NSW Australia), which will give a false perception of depth of sound. But if the theatre's acoustics are properly designed, the sound will come only from in front of the audience, as it should. As to CDs, they were first introduced as a play-only medium for public consumption, but as computers developed further, blank 74-minute-capacity CD-R discs became available to burn your own choice of songs onto CD, then came 80-minute-capacity discs, but you could only handwrite any info on their labels with a marker pen, then came CDs with inkjet-printable labels and printers that could print onto those labels, and my creative urges went into OVERDRIVE! Not only could I put the music I WANTED on CD, but I could create a label design to better those commercial-issue CDs. And THEN..... Verbatim started marketing spindle-packs of CD-Rs with SILVER inkjet-printable surfaces.....WOW. These are what I'm using now and they look just BRILLIANT!
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