> Christopher Spalding wrote:
>
>
> It actually takes a metal class tape to store digital data on, and even on
>
> these you will notice that DAT occasionally will have glitches and it
>
You can store digital data on any medium you like, for instance, knots in a
string (you might need a lot of string).
> Now, obviously more durable media such as CDs and MDs don't
> experience errors that much ...
>
I'm not sure this is true. Given the high degree of error recovery possible,
how could you tell ? I believe CD pressing can be quite crude, but it does
not matter.
... thus the higher quality the media the more
> likely it is that the reproduction will match the orriginal.
>
This does not follow. "Better" quality media MAY experience less errors (or
may be entirely marketing hype), but as long as the errors are corrected, it
makes no difference.
> If you took a
> bunch of cheap minidiscs and continued using them until you had a few
> glitches, and then repeated the experiment using higher quality discs, you
>
> would probably find that it would take longer for the higher quality discs
>
> to produce glitches.
>
This needs to be established by statistically significant experiment. Is it
the case that continued reuse of ANY type of MD causes it to give errors ?
simon
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