"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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David Looser wrote:
"Eeyore" wrote in message
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Why is optical media so efffing ****e ? ?

Will transcribe ASAP.


I've never had any problems with MDs.

On the other hand my RDATs.........:-(


Or even normal DAT. I once made the error of using a 120 minute tape to
save me the bother of changing it mid-performance. Big mistake.


That's the sort of DAT I meant, sometimes known as RDAT (because it uses a
rotating head drum, like a miniature VCR) to distinguish it from other
digital audio tape formats that used stationary heads.

The place where I worked changed over from using Betamax PCM to DAT in the
early 1990s. Not a wise move as the DAT tapes proved to be far less
reliable than the Betamax ones.

After I left I retained some personal recordings made on DAT, but couldn't
play them as I didn't have a DAT player. So a few years back I borrowed a
DAT machine in order to transcribe them to CD-R. Fortunately I had made
back-up clone copies of most of them, but some of the material could not be
recovered from either the original or the copy. Give me MD any day!

David.