[Eug-lug] Digital Audio Tapes

[Mr O]

Sony wouldn't want us to completely dismiss MiniDisc too! MD's
are small, durable, digital, and readily available. If the
stores run out I have about 40 or so blanks laying in my room!
80 minutes a piece in Stereo, double that for mono, quadruple
that for extended play, and add even more for the newer HD MD's
that are out there. FYI, an 80 minute MD is approximately 140MB.
The new HD MD's are over 1GB IIRC. 

(sidenote: they do record in ATRAC3 but at least they're easy to
work with)

That be all,
Mr O.


--- Tony Newman <tonyn at efn.org> wrote:


> 
>   DAT isn't a bad way to do audio.  If you run it at 48K
> samples per
> second, it's slightly better than CD.  It's not a common
> consumer
> format, so it never built up the volume needed to reduce the
> cost.  Of
> course for recording a meeting, it is massive overkill. 
> Proper
> acoustics and microphone placement would be of far more value
> in making
> a good recording on even a low cost analog cassette.
>

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