Very interesting replies on this thread. I like the laser turntable too, although I would expect it to suffer from the same analog noise problems that stylus turntables had to deal with. It's also interesting that with linear coding, both video and audio appear to need at least ~14 bits per sample. Dan Grimes wrote: > Let us take audio as an example. Audio can be sampled at 48,000 > samples per second, 16 bit, and it is "CD" quality. A nit. That is actually better than CD quality. CDs use 44.1 KHz sampling rate. Digital tape standards were 48 KHz. Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.