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In article <140627@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, marc@porsche944.Eng.Sun.COM (Marc
Schneider) writes:
|>  We just got in the new Sony industrial disc player, nice machine!. 
|> This thing will playback NTSC, & PAL/SECAM, handle 12" or 8"
|> discs and has composite or SCART connector output. The audio is
|> non-digital though (can't have everything).

I believe the model you are talking about it the Sony LDP3600.  While I
think the general move towards multi-standard machines is good, I feel
Sony are being rather "cheapskate" in not adding digital sound to the
machine.  This rules out the possibility of playing any of the current
mainstream PAL disc releases, which are all digital sound ONLY.  There
is not enough room in the PAL waveform for both Digital and Analogue
sound so it has to be either/or.

This is made doubly stupid by the fact that only one of the four plants
capable of manufacturing PAL discs is still prepared to promote the fact
that they do analogue pressings.  One of the plants that will only do
digital PAL pressings is Sony's own plant in Japan.  Introducing a dual
standard IV player that will not do digital sound at this point is
stupid.

Regards, Bevis

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