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- From: "ALEK GRABINSKI, 765-2151, VERTICAL FURNACE PGM MGR" <AGRABINSKI@sc9.intel.com>
- Subject: Dolby / DBX / etc
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.033033.11822@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
- Sender: mmdf@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU (Mail System)
- Reply-To: AGRABINSKI@sc9.intel.com
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:30:33 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- Umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but if you have a tape recorded using DBX,
- and you dub a copy for me and I don't have DBX, won't my audio quality
- be degraded?
-
- And is it not also true that Dolby Labs licenses their noise reduction
- technology under fairly loose implementation rules, so that deck
- manufacturers have to meet some spec on a test vehicle but that
- real-life implementation makes for drastic differences between same
- Dolby on different decks?
-
- It is for these two reasons that I, along with (I believe) a majority of
- the .net advocate the non-use of Dolby - otherwise the trading scene
- gets fractionated beyond just the tape/DAT schism.
-
- Wondering if my tape heads are melting,
-
- Alek
-
- ps - A lot of tapes already have abrasive leaders for head cleaning
- (although how that gunk doesn't get on the leader is a mystery). My
- original post about the Type I tapes said that manufacturers are looking
- at (or are already) putting more abrasives into the recording media
- itself.
-