Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bit-perfect

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The result was delete. PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 12:43, 24 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bit-perfect[edit]

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No references for a few years now Львівське (говорити) 20:58, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:35, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete or Merge with Audio and video interfaces and connectors, depending on whether reliable sources can substantiate anything. Topic doesn't seem notable enough for its own article. Searching Google Books, it wasn't clear whether it was a real term, or a misunderstanding of a descriptive term; many things are called "bit-perfect" or "bit-to-bit perfect" copies, meaning a lossless copy of digital data, which could be one use for this so-called "bit-perfect" audio signal standard. However, doing a normal web search for "bit perfect audio output" turns up quite many occurrences in forums and other sources that wouldn't qualify as reliable, but do suggest it's being properly used. One case U found where it was used as described in the article is from a magazine called "Hi-fi news", in 2008:

“The iTransport, which is certified Made for iPod®, turns any currently available iPod player into a high-end media server by providing a bit-perfect digital audio output to an audio/ video system, bypassing the player's internal ...”

––Agyle (talk) 00:38, 17 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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