Rules For Digital Recording - Onkyo MD-185X Instruction Manual

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 terminal. The following diagram shows a system
for making copies through the digital or analog terminals.
Rule 1
You can record digital source (CD, prerecorded MD, and DAT
equipment with a sampling frequency of 44.1 kHz) to a record-
able MD through the digital input terminal.
However, you cannot make subsequent copies from the record-
able MD to other recordable MDs through the digital output
terminal. Subsequent copies can only be made through analog
output terminal.
CD player
MD recorder
Optical cable or
coaxial digital
connecting cable
MD recorder
Recording
MD
Playing
MD recorder
Digital output terminal
Optical cable or
coaxial digital
connecting cable
Digital input terminal
Recording MD recorder
DAT deck
Digital output terminal
Digital input terminal
A recordable MD
recorded through
the digital input
terminal
Line (analog)
output terminal
Audio connecting
cord
Line (analog)
input terminal
Rule 2
You can record the digital input signal of a digital satellite
broadcast onto a recordable MD via the digital input terminals on
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.
BS tuner
Playing
Optical cable or
coaxial digital
connecting cable
MD recorder
Recording
MD
Play back
MD recorder
Optical cable or
coaxial digital
connecting cable
Recording
MD recorder
MD
Play back MD recorder
Digital output terminal
Optical cable or
coaxial digital
connecting cable
Digital input terminal
MD recorder
Recording
Digital output terminal
Digital input terminal
First-generation MD
recorded via
digital-to-digital
connection
Digital output terminal
Digital input terminal
Second-
generation MD
recorded via
digital-to-digital
connection
Line (analog)
output terminal
Audio connecting
cable
Line (analog)
input terminal
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