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Giles wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> You might also want to consider looking at a portable DAT player like
> the Sony TCD D8.  Not quite as small as the minidisk but better sound
> quality.  With the low world wide sales of minidisk there is a danger
> that the format will be dropped at some time. 

if this was true then why is sony sponsoring 3 day music festivals in
the states
secondly why has there been a 10 fold increase in the sale of MD's in
japan
over the last year. MD's are being taken up everywhere and by every
manufacturer

 With the TCD D8 if you
> use 90 metre computer grade tapes (not recommended by Sony) you can
> record 3 hours of music. If you used the LP mode which drops the
> response to 15khz but would probably still probably be on par with MD
> quality, you can get 6 hours on such a tape.
> 
> Giles

get real MD is sampled at 44.1 khz and not 15 Khz as you believe. the 
current generation MD's are using 20 bits and if you read the article
in electronics australia (Oct 96?) regarding the review of the JA3es
then the guy doing the review put MD ahead of DAT after reviewing the
 MD recorder in question

Then you have the wear and tear on DAT tapes and you do not have instant
random
access on DAT's. 

> 
> On Fri, 10 Jan 1997 15:19:22 +0000, Hosuni <hsh2@coventry.ac.uk>
> wrote:
> 
>
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