Digital audio on U-matic video tape. Repair a Sony PCM1630 decoder.

In the early days of CD, U-matic video tape was used in the CD mastering process to hold the digital audio data. The PCM1630 was the most capable and so now the most sought after decoder for this process. Let's try to repair one and do a pure digital audio capture.

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STC-007 software decoder from Maksim Kryukov aka Fagear:
GitHub: https://github.com/Fagear/SDVPCMdecod...

00:00 Introduction
02:27 What we are working on
06:26 Demonstrate working kit
08:19 Test target PCM-1630
09:32 Decoder boards
17:11 Pure digital output
18:16 NVision NV4888 sample rate converter
20:32 Pre-emphasis
21:08 The other box
21:44 Beta PCM-F1/501/601/701. PCM-100.
23:54 Software decoding and conclusion