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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:45:54 CST
- From: John Schulien <U21187@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <93026.174554U21187@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: DAT, DCC and MD
- References: <1993Jan20.165333.1241@cmkrnl.com> <106062@netnews.upenn.edu>
- <1993Jan22.025120.11716@e2big.mko.dec.com> <C1EuKp.3wq@fulcrum.co.uk>
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- In article <C1EuKp.3wq@fulcrum.co.uk>, igb@fulcrum.co.uk (Ian G Batten) says:
- > ... DCC's only expense over a grungy cassette
- >mechanism is the head, which isn't a moving part but is more complex
- >than a standard analogue head. ...
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- Speaking of grunge ... my understanding of DCC is that the analog and
- digital heads are integrated into one thin-film assembly. I wonder what
- will happen when people start playing dirty, shedding analog tapes
- in their DCC decks. Hey, the advertisement says that it will play my
- old cassettes!
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