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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Underground CD copying
- Message-ID: <BrsvJq.F6G@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:06:59 GMT
- References: <klp.711752974@reg>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <klp.711752974@reg> klp@doe.carleton.ca (Ka Lun Pang) writes:
- >I don't know the details of making a CD but as I understood, there are
- >micro hills and valleys representing 1's and 0's. Now if the bad guys have
- >the technology of manufacturing CD, which part(s) of the process they can't
- >do perfectly to cause degradation in fidelity?
-
- The obvious possibility is that their source material is second-rate, and
- the CD pressing is just faithfully reproducing the source's limitations.
- If you make a CD from a cassette tape made on a pocket recorder, what you
- get is pocket-recorder fidelity.
-
- CD reproduction is done by a pressing process, literally: the CD blank
- is pressed against a metal master which has bumps where the CD is to have
- pits. Conceivably, a sloppy job on this could result in second-rate CDs.
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- There is nothing wrong with making | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- mistakes, but... make *new* ones. -D.Sim| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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