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- From: lancer@wpi.WPI.EDU (Stephe Lewis Foskett)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: DAT, DCC and MD
- Message-ID: <LANCER.93Jan27021449@wpi.WPI.EDU>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 07:14:49 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.165333.1241@cmkrnl.com> <106062@netnews.upenn.edu>
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- In-reply-to: graeme@labtam.labtam.oz.au's message of Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:01:52 GMT
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- >>>>> On Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:01:52 GMT, graeme@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Graeme Gill) said:
- > I came across an article recently from Sony in which they
- > describe a play only DAT mechanism that uses a non-tracking
- > technique combined with memory buffering.
-
- This would be the mystical Sony NT-1 "Scoopman". Somehow they fit 90
- minutes of 32KHz uncompressed digital stereo on a "stamp-sized"
- casette. The machine apparently runs six hours on a AA battery and is
- the size of a microcasette recorder.
-
- Now don't you wish Sony had designed an NT machine using CC-sized
- casettes (like the DCC) which could record 44.1 KHz uncompressed
- digital stereo? They could kill the DCC and appease the
- non-compressionists out there in one fell swoop!
-
- I'd settle for NT microcasette recorders if they'd become more common
- here in the states! 12 bit wouldn't sound _that_ bad in a walkman...
-
- .s.
- --
- - so spake lancer@wpi.wpi.edu - - so says the Beautiful South: -
- - Im walking through these pastures, Im picking up sweet fruit -
- - Im shaking hands with people that previously Id shoot -
- -Nothing will disuade me, nothing will dilute - I want to execute-
-