Looper's Delight Archive Top (Search)
Date Index
Thread Index
Author Index
Looper's Delight Home
Mailing List Info
[Date Prev][Date Next]   [Thread Prev][Thread Next]   [Date Index][Thread Index][Author Index]

Re:Digital Out on MD

So what format is the digital info from this port?  After it's been 
decoded from ATRAC into analog, did Sony include hardware to convert that 
into...what?

TravisH

At 03:59 PM 7/2/2003 -0400, you wrote:

>MD units don't have digital out because the audio is stored in a 
>compressed, proprietary format.  If you had digital out, you'd end up 
>with 
>ATRAC data, which doesn't do you much good, since I'm unaware of a 
>program 
>that can read ATRAC format.

Incorrect, as home units do have digital outputs.  Just the portables that 
lack digital  out.