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- Subject: Re: DCC's in the stores
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 16:46:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.141853.24622@news.cs.brandeis.edu>, weitzman@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Adam J. Weitzman) writes...
- >
- >Just thought you'd all like to know that you can buy pre-recorded DCC's now. I
- >saw some in Tower and HMV last night. The pop/rock ones were selling for
- >$13.99 (U2's _Rattle_And_Hum_ was $15.99) in Tower, $14.99 in HMV. Some titles
- >by U2, Suzannne Vega, Eurythmics, Tears For Fears, the Steve Miller Band,
- >Steve Winwood, and others I have forgotten. No '92 releases, though. Many more
- >classical titles were there also (I had to search through them to find the pop/
- >rock ones), but no idea what they cost or how recent the recordings were.
- >
- >--
- > - Adam J Weitzman
- > weitzman@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu
- >"All our life is spent in this permanent brainwashed contempt."
- > - Meat Beat Manifesto
-
- All this talk about DCC, DAT, and MD has caused me some concern.
- I'm not concerned about the losses that will probably take place
- between generations of DCCs and MDs, but what concerns me is
- the apparent endorsement of an obviously inferior medium: tape.
-
- All tapes wear out, all tapes can get eaten by a deck, and all
- tapes have a high rate of defectiveness. DAT and DCC may sound
- better, but they don't fix what I think is the biggest problem
- with analog cassettes: durability. (not to mention random-access)
-
- By the way, I work in a music store, so I get to see just how many
- defective tapes we get back. It's quite a few. Incidentally,
- we do get a few CD's back, but it's usually because the numbskulls
- don't know about cleaning them. The only truly defective disks
- we get are from labeling ink getting on the playing side of a disk
- from poor pressing (like overspray, but not as severe).
- I've only seen two disks come back with this problem, in over a
- year. All other disks, I just clean them, verify that they play
- on our CD player, then send the customer on his/her way, feeling
- stupid.
-
- Bret
-