What I did on my summer holidays.

[Geoff Shang]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:

> There is a profound difference between recording digitally and the DAISY
> standard. If you only record, from beginning to end, you're functionally
> no different than the analog cassette. Instead, DAISY imposes hierarchical
> structure onto the recording, using the SMIL protocol. That way, you can
> "rewind" and "fast forward" to something meaningful, because it's
> structural, unlike today's media which only "rewind" or "fast forward"
> some number of inches of tape irrespective of the actual intellectual
> contents.

Yeah I realise this, but having it digital to begin with is going to save
you the time needed to import it from analogue.  Not to mention that
quality is likely to be better - if they've invested in digital, chances
are they've invested in some decent recording equipment and environment.

Geoff.