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- From: ted@dgbt.doc.ca (Ted Grusec)
- Subject: Re: questions on new digital formats
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.184453.11969@dgbt.doc.ca>
- Organization: The Communications Research Centre
- References: <1gld2cINN8pa@mensa.usc.edu> <1992Dec23.234533.16495@adobe.com> <28963@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 18:44:53 GMT
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- In article <28963@oasys.dt.navy.mil> curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch) writes:
- >Norman Chiu writes:
- >>No. DCC decks can only play analog cassettes, not record them.
- >
- >Perry A. Caro writes:
- >>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.
- >
- >Don't the DCC decks uses the same heads for reading both type of
- >tapes? I was wondering if the reason they don't record is because
- >these new thin-film (or whatever they are) heads (which are designed
- >to read and write the 8 (or 10 or 11 or whatever) track DCC tapes
- >can't do a a very good job of recording in the ACC format.
-
- Someone should correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that
- there are two different sets of heads on DCC decks - one to read-write
- DCC, the other to read-only analog. So it may not be the case that
- you will ever get analog write on DCC decks.
-
- >
- >Personally, I don't expect DCC to last more than 6 months. If it had
- >come out 3 years ago, before DAT, then it could have found a market.
- >But now, with DAT already established, and with MD comming out, I don't
- >see how DCC has a chance.
-
- Yes, BUT, the major use of cassette tape is NOT music, but dictating
- machines, telephone answering machines, etc. Pedestrian uses, not
- music. DCC may fail for music, yet be a raging success in this much
- larger domain.
-
-
- >And I think MD will not only beat out DCC, but it will also replace
- >ACC, and in about 3 years, I think MD sales will even pass CD sales.
- >MD will never replace CD, but I think MD will replace CD as the primary
- >audio distribution format.
-
- It might be a sad day for audiophiles and other fussy people if MD
- threatens the CD. It is a lossy compression format, and the
- ultra-sensitive may hear some distortion, perhaps momentarily, on some
- kinds of materials. If MD becomes primary for audio distribution, can
- CD survive? I think not. Lossy compression, I assure you, is NOT
- perfect, although casual listening under the usual non-critical
- conditions may not reveal this. Mass market, OK, but what's to happen
- to audio and musicophile perfectionists? Must they pay big bucks?
- Even with big bucks, can non-lossy formats for consumers survive? The.
- last couple of years of Stereophile magazine have been following the
- issues closely for anyone interested.
-
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- Ted Grusec - Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Ont., Canada
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