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- From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
- Subject: Re: questions on new digital formats
- In-Reply-To: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil's message of 24 Dec 92 17:10:45 GMT
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- Date: 25 Dec 92 15:40:56
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- In article <28963@oasys.dt.navy.mil> curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch) writes:
-
- Why would anyone buy DCC? The decks are currently on sale for $999 at
- my local Circuit City. For that much money, you can buy a DAT deck, A
- CD player, a cassette deck, and a Sony walkman. Or, you could buy the
- MD player/recorder and a $300 cassette deck. What does DCC give you
- that you can't get with these other units for the same price?
- Nothing.
-
- Do you have to pay a copyright tax when you buy blank DCC tape?
- I have sometimes wondered whether the DAT tape tax is an effort
- to kill off DAT altogether.
-
- 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.
-
- In some parts of the world, cassettes have been pretty much the only
- medium in use for over a decade (very little vinyl or CD's, even back
- when vinyl was the dominant medium here). Even in the US, I believe
- ACC, not CD, is still the "dominant" distribution medium.
-
- I don't think MD can ever compete with ACC in the low-fi market, which
- is where I think is what most ACC's are (portable recorders, small boom
- boxes, etc.). I can get an AM/FM/ACC boom box or walkman for $20,
- decent quality blank tapes for 75 cents, or crappy tapes for 25 cents.
- I'd love to see MD's in that price range but just don't think it's
- going to happen. I'd also like to see MD's (which store 128 megabytes
- of digital data) replace floppy discs (i.e. drive cost < $100, blank
- disk cost <$2) but I'm not holding my breath.
-