Fri, 2013-05-03 20:10 — spasarok
Donor: Grinnell College Audiovisual Center
The Sony DATStation is a dual deck DAT editor used record, edit, and play Digital Audio Tapes (DAT). This compact home system opens to provide a screen, a general-purpose editing keyboard, and adjustable crossfade, level and balance control functions. Sony introduced DAT cassettes as a competitor format to general audio cassettes. However, concerns from the music industry about the the potential use of DAT cassettes to reproduce copy-right music with no loss of quality prevented DAT cassettes from catching on.
References:
http://www.proaudio-revival.com/sony-pcm-e7700.html
http://www.stereophile.com/asweseeit/copycode_diminishing_dat/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Tape
