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- From: ibhan@husc8.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: questions on new digital formats
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 16:57:35 GMT
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- Ken Zuroski <kz08+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
-
- >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.
-
- I've seen both in stores. DCC's have special tape cases, and MINI discs
- have small plastic cases as well. They resemble the actual plastic CD
- boxes more than the cardboard things. If you mean how are they going to
- put these things up for display, I saw DCC in tape racks (though I'm not
- sure if they were the same kind of tape rack as used for conventional
- cassettes), and the MD's I saw were in a special display.
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- - Ishir Bhan - ibhan@husc.harvard.edu -
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