Re: digital lossy, was: cheap minidiscs?

["{ brad brace }" bbrace2001]

>From what I remember reading somewhere... when digitally
copying (playing) a MD to another MD recorder, there is a
loss of information. Or is my memory flawed as well?  /:b

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Lou Judson wrote:

> Digital copies do not degrade, unless the software or the user does
> something to it.
>
> I've had friends who would copy CDs not realizing that their PCs would
> make MP3s and then make CDs from them - that was degradation, and
> contributes to copy degradation myths...
>
> And MD is probably the most robust digital storage around, due to the
> magneto-optical recording process, according to some people I know.
>
> I have also found that even the cheaper MDs record just as well as
> premium, though I have not done exbhaustive testing. Has anyone else
> here?