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Rick,
In paragraph seven, I was continuing on the mastering theme, specifically with the need for two units. *-If-* you could somehow strip and re-construct the data, you'd still need only the one unit to record each pair of two channels, and the same one unit to read the data back. -Thinking about it, it's by no means certain that there's a "read-back" input on the mastering delay connector... -It's possible that the delay device might also contain the second (identical) converter circuit... -this would remove the need to buy a second encode/decoder, with all it's 'wasted' redundant input circuitry...

To know the answer to that question, you'd need to know more about the delay option, or have information on the pin-out of the interface connector.

I would be curious to know what the nearest integer multiple of the NTSC line frequency (15.xxxxkHz, instead of the much lower frame rate of 29.97Hz) to the sample rate/bit rate would be... this might give a clue as to how they're synchronising the whole affair...

About this point any knowledge I might have is already shared... from here on, it would be detective work, conjecture and guesswork!

I know that what you're looking into would be beyond my abilities, but even failed efforts usually turn out to be quite educational! -If you're not the type of person to get too frustrated with a lack of progress (and you have plenty of time on your hands for a 'project'!) then by all means investigate away! -If you're not known for patience and have a calendar with more ink than white spaces on it, then perhaps it's time to clear a spot on a shelf in the pro-audio museum for the DBX's ;-)

Good luck... -if by some stroke of genius you get anything to store & retrieve, I'd be delighted to know about it!!!

Keith


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