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- From: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
- Subject: Re: questions on new digital formats
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.060950.28828@news.columbia.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 06:09:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.234533.16495@adobe.com> caro@adobe.UUCP (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. At least, that's what magazine
- >articles in Audio and Stereo Review said.
-
- At the recent New York City SPARS meeting, the presentation was by
- BASF and was about DCC manufacture, and the word I heard that the
- lack of record ability for analog is part of the Philips license
- agreement. They obviously want to push the old analog cassettes
- into the grave as fast as possible.
-
- >Why don't these early DCC decks do ACC recording? I dunno. All I know
- >is that the next generation of home decks will probably include ACC
- >recording, as a high end feature, no doubt. :-)
-
- Not likely.
-
- >While I'm at it, I can't sympathize with all the *a priori* angst about
- >PASC encoding. So it loses data? So what? So does every analog
- >recording I've ever made! I'll believe people can hear a difference
- >when someone, anyone, can do a double-blind A/B/X test and beat 50/50
- >chance.
-
- Well, you'll hear the difference if the system is revealing enough.
- DCC and other formats of that ilk have no application in the pro world
- anyway. I wholeheartedly support them as a replacement for the
- cassette however (NOT for the CD though, and I'm glad no one is
- marketing it that way).
-
- >We'll see who wins. My bet's on backwards compatability.
-
- My bet is that the consumer market will not grasp the backward
- compatibility issue. They'll think that the new decks can record
- regular cassettes and they won't care about the digital ones because
- their friends can't play them. The CD didn't sell because of its
- sound quality. The CD sold because it looked different and because it
- was more convenient than the LP.
-
- We could very well see both DCC and MD die on the vine a la quad.
-
-
- --
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