Can't read DVD

[Michael Hennebry]

On Sun, 25 Aug 2013, Tim wrote:

> On that note, it always amazed me that data CDs were ever possible.  For
> a start, you can't just lose a bit in your data (or program) and carry
> on as if nothing happened, it all has to be precisely correct, and audio
> CDs are continually working through playback errors, all the time the
> disc is playing.  Checksums can say the data is wrong, but if there's
> more than one bit wrong, you couldn't work out what the error actually
> was.  With audio, you can make a guess, to fit a missing value between

They work because the error-correcting code is much better than that.

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