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From: ben@moncol.UUCP (Bennett Broder)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: error correction in cd's
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Date: Sun, 9-Jun-85 11:42:26 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  9 11:42:26 1985
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>>Have you ever put your favourite CD up to a light source?  Choose one
>>that doesn't have an opaque label.  There are definitely defects there
>>that are more than 1 bit!  Thank goodness for error correction.
>
>You need a lesson in optics.  What you see is not what the laser sees.
>It has a one-micron depth of focus set below the level of what you're
>seeing.  You don't.

I don't see what that has to do with anything.  When I hold a CD up to
the light and see a large pinhole (a pretty common defect), it seems
to me that there are no bits at *any* depth.