Talk:Digital Audio Tape

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[edit] DAT or DIGITAL AUDIO TAPE

Your article says Sony introduced DAT or Digital Audio Tape in 1987. I'm not certain of the timeline. But I recall hearing about Digital Audio Tape in the media. Very shortly after it was announced as a technological feat and it was released as a Product in the rest of the world.

The Music Recording industry in the United States fearing that people would copy the material, and have 'masters' they could copy large quantities of would reduce the profits of the recording industry. The Music Recording Industry went to the United States Government and said, "if this is allowed, it will put us out of business"

The United States Government responded to the MultiMillion Dollar Recording Industry. The government issued a moratorium on the importation of Digital Audio Tape for SEVEN(7) YEARS. Allowing the Music Recording Industry time to figure out how to incorprate something into equipment sold in this country to prevent the wholesale copying of their copyrighted material.

I'm not certain, but i believe that the Moratorium was issued in 1979 and probably lasted until 1986, or so. Which put the people in this country who worked in the audio equipment field seven (7) years behind the rest of the world. This is as far as i know the first time that the United States Government has prevented Technological Progress by issuing a Law. --68.231.43.3 17:13, 7 October 2005 (UTC) by Nick Sues Oct 7. 2005

[edit] Explanation of my edits

I just thought I'd give a few notes on my changes. I added some information here and there, moved a few sections around, and added section/subsection titles so that there would be a TOC and the article would be easier to navigate. I think this goes quite a way to bringing the article up to standard. I'm not sure whether people will think that I went overboard on the subsections, but my thinking was that I would rather have too many discrete subsections than too few, since by having subsections, the article becomes a little less unwieldy for people to edit. If there is a consensus though that we don't want as many sections, feel free to remove them, I won't be offended. Kadin2048 20:41, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright violation?

The entire History section seems lifted word-for-word from http://www.dvd-cd-replication.com/DAT.htm

More like the other way around. There seems to be a lot of websites out there that copy Wikipedia's content word-for-word, considering the public-domain nature of Wikipedia's content. I know that that the site you mentioned has copied from Wikipedia, since I wrote some of that content here, especially regarding the "Predecessor Formats" section... misternuvistor 06:47, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Usages: Radio??

Ummm...isn't/wasn't DAT the format of "carts" widely used to this day in radio broadcasting for station ID's, jingles, commercials, etc.?

[edit] Missing information

This article fails to mention if the cassettes are single or double sided! --194.251.240.114 04:55, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

They are single-sided, much like a videocassette. I'll add this info to the article, if it hasn't been already... misternuvistor 12:00, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] encoding issues

Does anyone know what sort of error detection/correction algorithms were used in DAT? There had to have been some, somewhere--parity bits, block coding, or something. 24.145.224.174 01:23, 17 May 2007 (UTC) M Kinsler

[edit] Photo of Recording Head please

I'd like to see a photo of the recording head added to this article. I've never seen an audio player with a "spinning head" before, and I'm curious how it looks. - Theaveng 14:42, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge content to/from AHRA article

I created an Anti-DAT lobbying section, moved some content into it, and used a 1989 Rolling Stone report for a source. This source provides some info not yet present in Audio Home Recording Act#History and Legislative Background. Could someone merge it into there? Also, there is material in Audio Home Recording Act#History and Legislative Background that could stand to be merged into here. Thanks. —mjb 08:34, 25 October 2007 (UTC)