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- From: dlou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio.car
- Subject: Re: DCC
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- Date: 3 Jan 93 05:00:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.142004.1032@cmkrnl.com>, jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:
- |> In article <1hoclrINN1s0@network.ucsd.edu>, simon@ivem.ucsd.edu (Simon Lee) writes:
- |> > In article <Bzs8nv.AI1@acsu.buffalo.edu> kist@acsu.buffalo.edu (james e kist) writes:
- |> > I think it didn't catch on because it was another format.
- |>
- |> I don't think this was the only issue. Remember that VHS came in after Beta
- |> and all but killed it, even though VHS was an incompatible format, mostly
- |> because people were more interested in longer recording times than in higher
- |> quality video and smaller cassettes. Remember that 8mm camcorders are clearly
- |> winning over VHS and VHS-C models, even though 8mm can't be played directly in
- |> the typical home VCR.
- |>
- |> I think that DAT has failed to catch on in the consumer market because most
- |> people simply don't need it -- and the decks are priced high enough to
- |> discourage most of those who don't need it. If DAT decks had been available
- |> for, oh, the price of a good cassette deck, say $300 or so, it would have made
- |> a much better showing.
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- I think there's another factor that hasn't been addressed yet. The recording
- industry was against DAT and you never saw any pre-recorded DAT tapes.
- However, the Tower Records in Los Altos has a bunch of pre-recorded DCC tapes
- for sale. I think DCC hasn't met with nearly as much opposition.
- What also helps is that both DCC and MD have protection circuitry to prevent
- more than one generation of copying through the digital channel. Given
- the lossy compression scheme, I doubt anything beyond the 1st generation
- will sound that great via the analog channel.
- Also, the fact that it is downward compatible (i.e. you can record and
- playback your regular cassettes) gives it another advantage over DAT.
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- DCC and MD players/recorders are also coming out at a cheaper starting price.
- DCC was supposed to start at under $500, but of Philipps, Technics and Tandy,
- the Radio Shack is cheapest at $799. I saw the MD unit for $699 at Fry's.
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- I don't want to sound like a DCC/MD fanatic, so the downside is that we
- are still recovering from a recession and who knows if people will see
- the need for yet another format (it seems like yesterday that DAT came out
- and very recent that CD hit it big)
-
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- Dennis Lou || "But Yossarian, what if everyone thought that way?"
- dlou@ucsd.edu || "Then I'd be crazy to think any other way!"
- [backbone]!ucsd!dlou |+====================================================
- dlou@ucsd.BITNET |Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak went to my high school.
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- Dennis Lou || "But Yossarian, what if everyone thought that way?"
- dlou@ucsd.edu || "Then I'd be crazy to think any other way!"
- [backbone]!ucsd!dlou |+====================================================
- dlou@ucsd.BITNET |Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak went to my high school.
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