"struan" wrote in message
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I am thinking about getting a DAT recorder, and as there seem to be few
(if
any?) consumer models still available for new purchase, I have been
checking
out Ebay - there usually seems to be a few available (professional &
consumer - Tascam, Panasonic, Sony (DTC690, DTC750 etc.)); as the consumer
ones are old models, I don't have any information on feature etc. - Does
anyone know of any good websites which may contain such information, or
have
any recommendations of particular models (remote controlled, LP, for home
use)?

Also some good sites about DAT in general?

Can't read between the lines very well, eh?

DAT has been pretty well killed off as other than a narrow niche product by
newer, better technology.

At the high end DAT was killed off by ADAT, RDAT and then by computers with
high end multichannel sound cards. In the mainstream it was killed off by
computers with better quality sound cards. For portable applications DAT was
killed off first by portable Minidisc recorders, then by memory and
hard-drive based portable recorders, as well as laptop computers with PCMCIA
and firewire audio interfaces.