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- From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
- Subject: Re: DAT, DCC and MD
- In-Reply-To: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com's message of Wed, 20 Jan 1993 21:30:28 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:25:45 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.213028.23989@e2big.mko.dec.com> winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:
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- There is one thing that DCC can do that DAT can't: it is far easier
- to do pre-recorded DCCs than pre-recorded DATs. One can use the
- same sort of cheap mass-production contact-printing techniques now
- used for cassette tape to produce pre-recorded DCCs. For DAT, you
- have to essentially set up huge banks of DAT decks to record the
- tapes. This makes DAT unattractive to the recording industry. A
- very large segment (I hesitate to say the majority) of the mass-
- market for tape decks is driven by the availability of pre-recorded
- tapes. This is why DAT didn't get very far when Sony did its
- consumer deck push a year or two ago.
-
- Is it harder to make prerecorded DAT's than prerecorded videotapes?
- Movie companies do the latter all the time...
-