"Bit width" vs "bit depth"
"Bit width" vs "bit depth"
- Subject: "Bit width" vs "bit depth"
- From: Andy Peters <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:45:44 -0700
Maybe somebody here can explain.
The System Profiler tells me that my Mac mini's built-in audio
supports two formats: PCM 16 and PCM 24.
What's interesting is that for each, we're told that there's both a
Bit Depth and a Bit Width. For PCM 16, both of these are 16, and for
PCM 24, the Depth is 24 and the Width is 32.
My question: WTF? How can it be both "wide" and "deep"?
(Rhetorical question: why can we just refer to it as "word width,"
which is what we mean we wish to indicate how many bits are in a word?)
-a
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