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The analog hole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole

• squarefoot 5y ago
  Which is one of the reasons behind the removal of the headphone analog output from various devices.
  • betterunix2 5y ago
    Which only raises the price of exploiting the analog hole by a relatively small amount -- it is not hard to buy better audio recording equipment to record the audio as it is being played, and the postprocessing needed to make it sound like the original is not very complex. A few thousand dollars (maybe low tens of thousands) wuold be enough to get you a rig that records a high-def movie with little noticeable loss, and anecdotally I have heard of such systems being used to rip TV shows as they air.
    • goodpoint 5y ago
      > buy better audio recording equipment to record the audio Huh?! You can just buy a sound card or even a DAC for very little.