So it appears (based on the linked articles from CNN and What HiFi?) that Apple may be gearing up to launch high resolution downloads on iTunes...

I've always expected that eventually all downloads/streams will be high res, but this news is way ahead of schedule IMO... Hopefully it is accurate though:

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web...iref=allsearch

http://whathifi.com/News/US-NEWS-App...les-on-iTunes/