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Each segment of each track has its own SCMS status regardless of other
tracks
on the disc or other segments in the track. If you are playing a whole disc
straight through and copying digitally to another MD, SCMS will make the
target unit pause during uncopyable segments but will allow it to record
during copyable segments.
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The MDS-W1 double-MD deck and some CD-MD combo decks have an analogue
fallback path where the signal is recorded as an analogue signal through
this path or as a digital-direct signal. If you use the easy-copy functions
in these decks, the units engage in SCMS-driven path-routing where the
content segments that are marked SCMS-final is copied via the analogue path
while other segments are copied using a digital-direct path.
Also the SCMS firmware may support an extra copy generation when the digital
source is a digital broadcast receiver such as a digital satellite tuner or
DAB tuner. This exception is well documented with Sony digital-recording
decks in their SCMS explanation page; and with Philips DCC decks (because of
the DSR system that was being promoted in Europe at the time of the DCC).
With regards,
Simon Mackay
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