* "WZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 01 May 2000
| It depends whether you're in SP, LP, or EP mode. When you're in EP mode,
| you get 8 hours. So you don't always get 120 minutes.
You always get 120 minues in SP mode, whether you are recording your
favorite program, static, or nothing at all. The data itself has a
constant, quantifiable size. You can run the tape slower, to fit more
data, but quality drops in proportion to speed. Sounds exactly like lossy
compression to me: less quality, more data in a given quantity of media.
| I have to agree with everyone else on this list. Converting from analog to
| digial and vice versa is not considered compression/decompression.
My point was never about whether or not it is generally considered to be
compression, because it obviously isn't. The point is whether or not it
actually *is* compression.
| Reducing the "size" of digital data is considered compression.
Is reducing the "size" of analog data somehow not compression? Would your
professor care to explain why reducing the size of analog data is not
compression?
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