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Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder
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Back in the 90s, technology hardly existed to resample these different formats on-the-fly; eventually, Sony and others started selling DAT units that supported 44.1kHz directly. Instead, DAT works in a similar way to a VHS video recorder: the magnetic head is on a rotating drum, aligned at an angle to the direction of tape movement. In the end, though, I don’t think it was the price, or the lack of commercial releases, or the questionnable reliability, or the legal complications that killed off DAT – although all these factors played a part.
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