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DAT entered the market at about the same time as CD, but was much less successful. For all its notional advantages, DAT never really caught on in the domestic m
by brudgers 1y ago
DAT entered the market at about the same time as CD, but was much less successful. For all its notional advantages, DAT never really caught on in the domestic market
Audio distribution dominates the consumer market and CD’s can be pressed much like a vinyl record. Basically, producing a full fledged CD takes about the same effort as manufacturing half the cassette case for DAT.
A CD is a mechanically stamped plastic widget. A DAT tape requires a BOM and assembly before loading it with data.
- kevin_thibedeau 1y agoThe CD stampers were expensive to fabricate.
- justsomehnguy 1y agoAnd? For the any long run the cost of the CD drops way below $0.15 It literally costs more to ship that CD to the store than to make it. And if that CD is selling for $25 retail (without the tax in the US) you already made at least 100x times the cost.
- brudgers 1y agoThe injection moulds and industrial machine tools for fabricating a DAT are also expensive and writing valid data to each tape is time consuming.