> The only annoyance was that I couldn't transfer recordings to my PC in a digital format -- thanks to copyright protection -- though I obviously owned the rights to my own recordings.
If it was recorded in analog, SCMS should not interfered with a digital copy, and on a PC it should been no issue at all. Slow, because real-time, but should have been near-perfect.
Of course, if you used a few hacks and two critical pieces of merchandise (MDS-W1, the only one I know of that does lossless ATRAC transfers, plus another with the TOC-cloning hack), you could make essentially infinite perfect copies.
If it was recorded in analog, SCMS should not interfered with a digital copy, and on a PC it should been no issue at all. Slow, because real-time, but should have been near-perfect.
Of course, if you used a few hacks and two critical pieces of merchandise (MDS-W1, the only one I know of that does lossless ATRAC transfers, plus another with the TOC-cloning hack), you could make essentially infinite perfect copies.