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- From: 2575brooksr@vms.csd.mu.edu (Ryan K. Brooks)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Reasons for Amiga CD
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 04:55:51 GMT
- Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
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- References: <Paula_Lieberman.07xi@amicol.UUCP>
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- In article <Paula_Lieberman.07xi@amicol.UUCP>, Paula_Lieberman@amicol.UUCP (Paula Lieberman) writes:
- >In a message dated Fri 16 Jan 93 0:57, 2575brooksr@vms.csd.mu.edu (ryan K.
- >wrote:
- >
- > K> Message-ID: <009669AC.760C3000@vms.csd.mu.edu>
- > K> Date: 14 Jan 93 21:53:05 GMT
- > K> Paula_Lieberman@amicol.UUCP
- > K> The reason they are "deliberately lossy" is only because the media
- > K> chosen
- > K> to store the audio data is much smaller (bit-wise) than is required to
- > K> store
- > K> a 100% representation of the sound. MD and DCC wouldn't be so "Mini"
- > K> and
- > K> "Compact" if they weren't lossy.
- >
- >Uh-uh, the data capacity either would be lower, or the price higher to
- >provide denser storage.
- >>Um, getting back to the start of that meandering sentence: DCC and
- >>minidisk both do not keep full 16 bit, 0 - 48 kHz data; some of the
- >>frequencies get ditched, to reduce the data processing throughput load,
- >>among other things.
- >
- > K> Neither format throws frequencies away, that would sound very odd.
- >They >compress< the data. Simply put, certain aspects of the overall
- > K> waveform are not recorded to disk/tape. Not good for high-end stuff.
- > K> But
- > K> try listening to the same stuff off of CD and a MD/DCC copy, I
- > K> couldn't
- > K> tell the difference, and I doubt 90% of the people out there can.
- >
- >a) I've run into a fair number of people who -can- tell the difference, who
- >still have the high ends of their hearing intact (go to too many LOUD rock
- >concerts, and the HF hearing response dies. Jet pilots often have
- >-notches- in their hearing at engine whine frequencies. Etc.
- >
- >b) The DEFINITION of "lossy" is losing data. The compression that MiniDisk
- >and DCC use BOTH removes high frequency date -- uh, do you know anything
- >about stuff like Fourier Transformer, Laplace Transforms, Fast Fourier
- >Transforms, Discrete Cosine Transforms, etc., that convert between time and
- >frequency domains? The -loss- in -lossy- compression using such techniques
- >deletes frequency domain data.....
- >
-
- Actually I do know about transforms, I'm EE. What you said is that it
- "throws" away certain freqs, and this is not the case. A transform
- just isn't as accurate as real world data. Let's say it approximates
- the data.
-
- >>So, both formats technically are inferior to DAT.
- >
- > K> DCC is very similar to DAT. MD offers fast random access without any
- > K> tape-wear. The ONLY way that they are inferior is the lossy
- >And lossy stor storage is INFERIOR in quality to lossless storage. Sigh.
- > K> compression.
- >
- >>Throwing away digital signal information also means that neither DCC nor
- >>MiniDisc is appropriate as a data storage format..... just think, you go
- >to
- >>retrieve a file, and there's data -deliberately- missing!
- >>
- >
- > K> Bzzzzzzt! Try again. Both formats store a PERFECT image of digital
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > K> information. The process that both Sony and Phillips chose for
- ^^^^^^^^^ I am saying the digital storage format is not lossy-
- that wouldn't make sense. I am NOT saying the way music is digitized
- on MD/DCC isn't lossy.
- > K> encoding
- > K> music loses some information but this compressed "image" is stored
- > K> perfectly to disk/tape. Both formats would store computer data
- > K> pefectly.
- >
- ><screech -- the very STORAGE algorithm is lossy, it's BUILT in!
-
- No its not.
-
- Playback
-
- Stream->Buffer->Decomp->D/A
-
- Record
-
- A/D->Comp->Buffer->Stream
-
- The AUDIO data is digitized, then PROCESSED, then stored. The data on
- the disk hasn't lost anything at any point after the compression.
-
- Computer data would be stored just like the POST-compression audio data.
- No loss occurs.
-
- So, TO SUM IT UP, MD or DCC would work perfectly for computer use.
- You'll never see DCC in a computer, but I wouldn't be surprised if MD
- pops up... access times are slow since the optical assembly is rather heavy,
- but it ought to be be faster than a CD-ROM.
-
- >
- >-- Via DLG Pro v0.992
- >
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