A transport houses no electronics itself for encoding and decoding the information recorded to and from a certain format of media, it usually only handles mechanical operations for accessing the media itself, such as playing or rewinding a tape, or accessing the tracks on a disc.
A transport houses no electronics itself for encoding and decoding the information recorded to and from a certain format of media. It only extracts and records information to the media, as well as handling mechanical operations for accessing the media itself, such as playing or rewinding a tape, or accessing the tracks on a disc.