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Also, this reminded me of a friend's tweet from a while back.

http://twitter.com/holman/status/20483293633

If you are a Beatles fan you have their music on (much better quality than mp3/aac) CDs. You have probably also ripped the songs to mp3/aac at a higher bit rate than iTunes will sell you (or maybe to a lossless format). Given that, I would expect some second day stories about how much better the CDs are anyway.

The only reason I would see a Beatles announcement as worth much is if it signaled that iTunes was going to sell music at above CD quality. At that point I could see some really big time sales.

Or they downloaded average quality MP3s from P2P.

Above CD quality? With 60's material done with vacuum tubes and magnetic tape, CD sampling rates and bit depth won't limit the distribution quality. Of course there are often cases where there's room for noticeable improvement over earlier CD releases, but that's due to better hardware and differences in mastering and other processing.

I bet you could sell music sampled at some ridiculous rate to audiophiles. How about "Copelab Music Company"?

Well, they make SACD versions of some truly epic 1960-1970 era music that gets very good reviews.

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