Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
>
> * "Timothy P. Stockman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 22 Aug 2000
> | CDDA is *not* analog! It is as digital as CDROM, your computer hard drive,
> | etc.
>
> CD-DA is Compact Disc Digital Audio. That means Linear PCM (pulse code
> modulation) 16 bits wide at a sampling frequency of 44.1KHz, which is a
> digital signal. The ones and zeros are coded on the disc media as ones
> (light reflects one way) and zeros (light reflects another way). But the
> media itself is analog in that the intensity of a given "one" -- that is,
> the ammount of light reflected from a given pit representing that bit of
> data -- is variable within a given tolerance.
If it is coding ones and zeros, then it is digital. You are just
playing with semantics. A strong one or a weak one is still a one. A
strong zero or a weak zero is still a zero. IF it is out of tolerance
then you get crap and skips if the error can't be corrected.
PCM is digital. CDs are digital.
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