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- From: smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: questions on new digital formats
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.102057.11009@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 10:20:57 GMT
- References: <lisfn9INNgm@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <chiu-181292132637@222.8.248.8> <1992Dec23.234533.16495@adobe.com>
- Reply-To: P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
- Organization: University of Bristol
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- In article <1992Dec23.234533.16495@adobe.com> caro@adobe.UUCP (Perry A. Caro) writes:
- >In article <chiu-181292132637@222.8.248.8> chiu@gpb-mac.sps.mot.com (Norman Chiu) writes:
- >>In article <lisfn9INNgm@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>,
- >>drp@reed.Eng.Sun.COM (Darrell Parham) wrote:
- >>>
- >>> - The claim is that you can play analog cassettes in DCC
- >>> machines. Can you also record analog cassettes in DCC
- >>> machines? I would like the capability of recording
- >>> cassettes for friends who might not have DCC yet?
- >>
- >>No. DCC decks can only play analog cassettes, not record them.
- >
- >Correction. No *current* DCC decks support ACC recording, but there
- >is nothing in the technology or specification for DCC that prevents
- >analog recording in the same deck. At least, that's what magazine
- >articles in Audio and Stereo Review said.
-
- My understanding (i.e. the rumours I've heard and the articles I've
- read) is that the reason DCC decks cannot record analog cassettes is
- simply that that is a condition of the license you have to take out
- from Philips if you want to make a DCC machine. If that's true, it's
- probably based in marketing reasons -- force people to eventually
- migrate to digital-only. Anyone here from Philips (or one of their
- licensees) who can confirm or deny this?
-
- --
- Paul Smee, Computing Service, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UD, UK
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