Rules for digital recording

Guide to the serial copy management system

Since your MD unit uses the Serial Copy Management System (SCMS), MDs recorded through the digital input terminal cannot be used to make subsequent copies to other MDs through the digital output termi- nal. The following diagram shows a system for making copies through the digital or analog terminals.

Rule 1

You can record digital source (CD, premastered MD, and DAT equipment with a sampling frequency of 44.1 kHz) to a recordable MD through the digital input ter- minal.

However, you cannot make subsequent copies from the recordable MD to other recordable MDs through the digital output terminal. Subsequent copies can be made only through the analog output terminal.

CD player

 

DAT deck

 

 

 

MD recorder

Playing

Rule 2

You can record a digital satellite broadcast signal onto a recordable MD via the digital input terminals on the MD recorder, which is capable of handling a sampling frequency of 32 kHz or 48 kHz. You can then record the contents of this recorded MD (first-generation) onto another recordable MD via digital input terminals on the MD recorder to create a second-generation digital copy.

Note, however, that with some BS tuners, second- generation digital copying may not be possible.

Playing

BS tuner

 

 

Digital output terminal

Optical cable or coaxial digital connecting cable

Digital input terminal

Recording

MD recorder

 

 

Digital output terminal

Optical cable or coaxial digital connecting cable

Digital input terminal

MD

First-generation MD recorded via digital-to-digital connection

Recording

MD recorder

 

 

MD

Playing

MD recorder

First-generation MD recorded via digital-to-digital connection

Playing back

MD recorder

 

 

Digital output terminal

Optical cable or coaxial digital connecting cable

Digital input terminal

Recording

MD recorder

 

 

Digital output terminal

Line (analog)

output terminal

 

Optical cable or

Second- generation MD

MDrecorded via digital-to-digital

coaxial digital

Audio connecting cable

connection

connecting cable

Digital input terminal

Line (analog)

input terminal

 

Recording

MD recorder

 

 

Playing back

 

MD recorder

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Line (analog)

Digital output terminal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

output terminal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Optical cable or

coaxial digital

Audio connecting cable

connecting cable

Digital input terminal

Line (analog)

input terminal

 

Recording

MD recorder

 

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