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Well certainly the digital signal can be affected and have some time delays. But digital can compensate for this to ensure that the whole signal is getting there. For instance, CD players have a read ahead cache that they use to ensure that the whole signal is getting there. What happens when this cannot keep up? An obvious drop out of all sound. You can skip a CD player's playback. I don't worry about the transmission quality of the IDE cable that I connect my hard rive to my motherboard with. Why would I? Unless physically broken, any IDE cable is perfectly capable of transmitting this digital signal.
Justin said:
Digital signals must be translated to analogue for the human ear to hear them and this is where subtle variations can be achieved.
Like I said though, the cable connecting your DVD player and receiver never deals in analogue signals. So what does it have to do with digital to analogue conversions?
The whole reason to move to digital over analogue is so that when the signal is affected we can compensate for it. Cetainly an analogue transmission will be affected. And when it is, well, tough luck. Who knows what the original signal looked like. But with a digital signal, we can ensure that what was sent is what is received. It's not a case of whether the signal itslef is exactly what was sent, but whether the information contained within is able to be exactly decoded. And since it's encoded in one's and zero's, there is no in between. There is no variation in the signal information. There might be time delays, but those can be compensated for. It's still the same one's and zero's coming down the line. There are no .75's or .33's.
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