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- From: igb@fulcrum.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: DAT, DCC and MD
- Message-ID: <C19CFs.Fw1@fulcrum.co.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 13:35:52 GMT
- References: <C15ozr.C3F@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1993Jan20.181814.7223@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <1993Jan20.213028.23989@e2big.mko.dec.com>
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- In article <1993Jan20.213028.23989@e2big.mko.dec.com> winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:
- > This is why DAT didn't get very far when Sony did its consumer deck push a
- > year or two ago.
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- DAT also requires highly accurate helical scan heads. These will always
- be more expensive than fixed heads --- witness the quite high floor for
- VCR mechanism prices as compared to Cassette mechanisms.
-
- ian
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