* "James S. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 23 Aug 2000
| the source. It only becomes analog again when it is converted. The underlying
| substrate in CDs is not "ultimately analog." Am I missing something in the
| traditional definitions of analog and digital?
Yes, you are. The *patterns* of light reflecting off of the pits in a CD
are analog, even though the *signal* those patterns represent are digital.
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