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- From: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: DAT, DCC and MD
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.025120.11716@e2big.mko.dec.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 02:51:20 GMT
- References: <C15ozr.C3F@news2.cis.umn.edu> <C15zHt.D3C@hfglobe.intel.com> <1993Jan20.165333.1241@cmkrnl.com> <106062@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Sender: usenet@e2big.mko.dec.com (Mr. USENET)
- Reply-To: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH
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- In article <106062@netnews.upenn.edu>,
- hoford@gynko.circ.upenn.edu (John Hoford) writes:
- |>
- |>If I want a High quality recording system. that stands
- |>a chance of comming down in price.
- |>That can offer cheap prerecorded media.
- |>Then MD or DCC are it.
- |>both can be made cheper than RDAT.
- |>both players can be made cheper than RDAT
- |>current prices are heigh because its new.
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- Certainly the media for MD and DCC can be made cheaper than pre-recorded RDATs,
- but don't be so sure that SDAT (i.e., DCC) players can necessarily be made
- cheaper than RDAT players. VCRs don't cost very much these days, and they're
- the same technology as RDAT.
-
- --PSW
-