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Re:Audiophiles in Japan Are Installing Their Own Power Poles by mrob on Saturday December 29, 2018 @12:31AM (#18782064)
Digital transmission refers to the whole transceiver system, not just the transmission medium. If I can put a "1" in and reliably get a "1" out, it doesn't matter that it was only a 0.9 part way down the wire.
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Re:Audiophiles in Japan Are Installing Their Own Power Poles by TylerE on Saturday December 29, 2018 @05:30PM (#18786090)
But that's the question, isn't it? If 0.0001% of the time you get 0.45v instead of 0.9v on the far end, now what?
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Re:Audiophiles in Japan Are Installing Their Own Power Poles by lmilcin on Sunday December 30, 2018 @05:29AM (#18788452)
I suppose you need to read up on digital protocols, it is all well handled. If it wasn't there could be no Internet or digital media or even processors or motherboards.
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Re:Audiophiles in Japan Are Installing Their Own Power Poles by TylerE on Sunday December 30, 2018 @03:06PM (#18791027)
That is a higher level, though.

I'm just so tired of all the bullshit where it "Must be a 1 or a 0". That is patently not true. HDMI video, to name one example very relevant to this thread, has no error correction, and bit errors will indeed crop up as the "sparkling" artifacts GGGGGP reported.

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