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- From: sss@castle.ed.ac.uk (S S Sturrock)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: DAT, DCC and MD
- Message-ID: <30749@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 14:35:26 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.213028.23989@e2big.mko.dec.com> <C19CFs.Fw1@fulcrum.co.uk> <1993Jan22.190811.28768@e2big.mko.dec.com>
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- In article <1993Jan22.190811.28768@e2big.mko.dec.com> winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:
- >
- >And DCC requires highly accurate thin-film fixed heads. These also will always
- >be more expensive than the 4-track heads required for analog cassette
- >mechanisms. Philips has had great difficulty getting DCC heads to track
- >reliably.
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- And the solution they came up with is elegant and simple and solves the
- problem well with just a simple guide mechanism as part of the cassette
- shell design.
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