RE: MD: Pure marketing hype from Sony

[Simon Barnes]

> Christopher Spalding wrote:
> 
> But what the accuracy of the data comes down to is that whilst the error 
> correction my cause the errors on the discs, etc to be unnoticable, it is 
> still ony the machine's best guess as to what should be there, so it isn't
> 
> exactly what the original should sound like. 
> 
There is no guesswork involved. The data is recorded with a degree of
redundancy (extra data), which allows for faults in the disk medium.
Provided the error rate does not break some threshold, the original data can
be recovered perfectly despite media errors.

simon
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