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I wonder what would happen to record companies if DAT existed in the 1960s or 1970s (before they really consolidated).
by yuhong 11y ago
I wonder what would happen to record companies if DAT existed in the 1960s or 1970s (before they really consolidated).
- TheOtherHobbes 11y agoDAT couldn't have existed because the technology wasn't there. Audio DACs were lab-grade items that cost four or five figures. The smaller digital tape packs in the 1970s had a capacity of maybe 256Kb per reel. And it wouldn't have made any difference, because in-car audio worked just fine with 8-track carts, which were available from the mid-1960s. Compact cassettes took over about a decade later.
- yuhong 11y agoI know, I am talking about the issue of how the music industry tried to kill it for example.