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Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: The Right Way to Tax DAT
References: <1992Feb21.231345.1145@ctr.columbia.edu> <1992Feb22.062326.28111@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <TOMA.92Feb23131559@blunt.TC.Cornell.EDU> <1992Feb24.041617.19881@uunet.uu.net>

kyle@uunet.uu.net (Kyle Jones) writes:

>Well, not exactly.  There will probably be an D->A and a A->D
>step in the process that will degrade sound quality somewhat,
>because it is doubtful most people will have a CD player with
>digital outputs.  And even if you did you would still be stymied
>by fact that the sampling rate would be wrong, because DATs are
>not recorded at the 44.1kHz CD sampling rate.  (I _think_ the DAT
>rate is 48kHz.) 

This is not at all true - the DAT machines I know of are perfectly
capable of converting input at 44.1kHz to 48kHz without going to
analog in between.  There should be no real degredation of the
original signal.

I also believe that the SCMS (serial copy management system) bit is
set only on tapes recorded from 44.1kHz digital input.  This means
that you can make unlimited copies of tapes from analog sources.