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- From: joe@avs.com (Joe Peterson)
- Subject: Re: questions on new digital formats
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 14:15:44 GMT
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- Ken Zuroski (kz08+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote:
- : Speaking of the new digital formats, I've yet to see either DCC or MD
- : pre-recorded media for sale in music shops. My questions: how are they
- : gonna package these things? I assume the DCC can fit into the old analog
- : cassette containers, but what about the MD diskettes? With all the fuss
- : from the record stores about CD packaging, I'm interested in what the
- : record companies have planned for the new formats.
-
- We have them here in Boston. The MD's are in (basically) a cassette shaped
- box (much larger than need be, but able to fit in the cassette racks of
- stores). The blank MD's are in a tiny hard plastic case just big enough for
- them (these cases are pretty cool - you slide the MD into them and they
- kind-of snap into a notch).
-
- DCC's come in a cassette shaped box, but the tape slides out of the small end.
-
- Joe
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