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- From: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: DAT and SCMS, some info
- Message-ID: <27660@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 21:06:37 GMT
- Article-I.D.: oasys.27660
- References: <1992Nov16.164847.24403@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> <1992Nov18.183824.12238@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- Reply-To: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch)
- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
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- (Paul S. Winalski) writes:
- >Note that SCMS is not unique to DAT. DCC and MD also must implement SCMS
- >in consumer units.
-
- In rec.audio, whs70@dancer.cc.bellcore.com (sohl,william h) writes:
- >If that is so, then doesn't that imply a "digital" interface.
-
- Yes.
-
- >I knew
- >DCC was a digital encoded signal, but I thought the inputs and
- >outputs of a DCC deck would be analog only.
-
- They have standard digital input and output ports like DAT and CD
- along with the analog ports.
-
- But you can't get them to send the raw data off the media out this
- port. The data always go through the compress/uncompress algorithm.
-
- Curt
-