> At 09:38 AM 3/3/00 +0200, Heikki J Wilenius wrote:
> >MiniDisc players have a digital audio output. All you
> >need is a sound card with a digital input, then you
> >can record the MD to you hard drive for cd burning.
> >Of course you can record it the non-digital way as
> >well...
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Elson Trinidad corrected:
> Incorrect, mostly. Just about all MD recorders have digital in but barely
> any have digital out -- NO portable unit has digital out <insert big frown
> icon here>. And this is an optical connection, which only some soundcards
> support.
Whoops, after checking my Sony MZ-R30 I realized this is true. =)
Since my soundcard does not have digital inputs I've never realized
this. Still, it *is* a really nice portable recorder. Weird that
there's no digital out, I always took that for granted...
Heikki
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