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From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Digital Audio Cassettes...- and copying
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Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 01:14:42 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 30 01:14:42 1985
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Oh, for goodness sakes, Steve. Have you never copied a record onto
a cassette? Are you therebye a pirate? Millions of people don't
think that they are when they do so for their own use and, most
often, own the record they are copying.  This probably more than
any other single thing, built the cassette industry.  It might
also do the same for a digital cassette industry.  I admit the
necessity of doing so is much attenuated, but then, it never was
 necessary with vinyl.

I think a more valid concern is the added expense in going from tape to
CD. I don't know. Given the choice would I go for a digital cassette
or the presently available VCR digital recording. Neither is splice-
editable. The VCR is somewhat larger and more ungainly, but it can
record for hours and hours without interruption. Both are presumably
copyable. Is the industry cooking up another 8mm disaster?  Is 8mm
a disaster? Was the Edsel?

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