* "James S. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 23 Aug 2000
| What are they analogs of? A medium is analog if its trace on a medium is a
| physical analog of the source material instead of a mathematical coding of
| that material.
You are using a different definition of analog than the rest of us. We are
talking about the definition applicable to electronic circuits: a device
having an output that is proportional to the input.
| The patterns of light are not analogous representations of the source
| material.
But they are proportional to the "input" that stamped out the medium. It
just so happens that what was stamped out a pattern of ones and zeros. The
compact disc can store analog data without ever undergoing any form of
digital conversion. The CD/Video -- 5 minutes of LaserDisc video and 20
minutes of CD audio on a compact disc, not to be confused with the Video
CD, MPEG-1 video on a CD -- does exactly that.
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