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- From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
- Subject: Re: Defeating SCMS
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:59:19 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.205919.14690@bilver.uucp>
- References: <1992Nov15.215144.12449@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> <1eej0gINN1i4@hpscdf.scd.hp.com> <1992Nov19.182505.27885@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
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- In article <1992Nov19.182505.27885@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:
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- >Sony is the only DAT manufacturer that I know of that owns a record company.
-
- Hm. Whatever happened to Dennon. They make DAT's. They have their
- own line of CD's. And they were the FIRST company to record digitally
- for commercial release. Their first digital recorder was a 4-track
- recorded basic on a 2" quad video tape recorder.
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- >The main reason why they bought Columbia Records was to stop Columbia from
- >getting in the way of selling and marketing DAT in the US. Columbia was in the
- >forefront of the notch filter and the blockade of DAT technology.
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- I think you need to research that a bit more. The deal was in the
- works a long time before that, and Sony got screwed in that deal. For
- more on this see "Hit Men".
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