Re: MD: Found a CD that cannot be digitally recorded on MD

[Magic]

Stainless Steel Rat wrote:

> Exactly.  If you stuff a 17-bit number into a 24-bit register, there is no
> problem.  But if you then take that 17-bit number and stuff it into a
> 16-bit register, you will overflow the register.

No, the LSB gets dropped and you still end up with a signal that will not
overflow the register. All that happens is you lose the extra 1 bit resolution
from the LSB end.

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