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- From: shetline@bbn.com (Kerry Shetline)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Selecting an LD Player
- Followup-To: rec.audio,rec.video
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 02:44:30 GMT
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- References: <shetline-301292233743@128.89.19.85> <1992Dec31.131316.14084@lsican.uucp>
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- In article <1992Dec31.131316.14084@lsican.uucp>, michael@Canada.lsil.com
- (Michael Smith) wrote:
- >
- >I would tend to agree with you that a properly buffered data-stream (i.e. a FIFO
- >of sort) should be able to compensate for any drifts in the data output rate of
- >the pickup itself (due to drifts in the motor speed). If this buffer is not
- >deep enough (this would be a function of the expected drifts in the motor rate,
- >number of errors per sample, time to correct errors, etc...) then at that point
- >there would be a definite error in the output stage of the CD. This would only
- >be a problem if the buffering was not matched with the physical characteristics
- >of the CD - i.e. nobody bothered to find out how much variation the drive motor
- >would have.
- >
- >On the Pioneer 701 LD player, there is a built-in Time Base Corrector to compensate
- >for changes in the drive speed motor (no error correcting here!). Since its an
- >analogue medium, buffering becomes extremely difficult and expensive. In this case,
- >they do recognize that there is a problem with maintaining a 100% accurate
- >spin rate, and compensate using a TBC. (But aren't TBC's a digital buffer that
- >offsets the output by one frame?)
- >
-
- The TBC attacks speed variations with servo feedback and line-by-line
- timing adjustments -- that is, buffered line data is held and released on a
- precise schedule. Drift within a line is not compensated for, as far as I
- know, and the TBC is only applied to the video portion of the LD signal.
- Thus, extra drive stability can help video quality beyond what the TBC
- corrects. But the claim was made about audio quality, and that is where I
- disagree.
-
- The digital subcarrier of a LD analog signal, once separated and
- demodulated, provides binary data with a slight jitter, just like a CD. The
- same buffering and clocked-output techniques apply, leaving no more jitter
- than a quartz crystal produces.
-
- -Kerry
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