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Madras said that rather than actually using cocaine, the researchers used an analog of the drug called CFT during experimentation...
...copying. The legal battling over DAT duplicating has been effectively resolved, with the advantage going to the tape: a CD can be copied without even fractional loss of sound quality onto a DAT tape. But the equipment will prevent that copy, even though it can be duplicated on conventional analog cassettes innumerable times, from being copied on another digital tape. Got that? There will be a quiz Monday morning...
...about everything the larger home deck will do, and one thing more: record with a microphone. Digital nirvana. The DATman is about the size of a Stephen King paperback, but rather less thick. It uses the same DAT cassette (which is less than half the size of the traditional analog cassette), records up to two hours of digitized splendor and plays it all back with impeccable fidelity. It makes conventional analog tape sound by comparison like an Edison cylinder...
Philips, however, is gambling that software is vital. At an electronics show in Las Vegas this week, the Dutch company plans to demonstrate a new system (oh no, not again!) that will record digitally and play both digital and analog cassettes. Several record companies, including Polygram (a Philips subsidiary), have already signed on to make recordings in the new digital compact cassette (DCC) format. Philips says the system will be available in early 1992 and promises it will deliver DAT-quality sound. Experts, however, are dubious. "I think Philips, as the inventor and promoter of the analog cassette, is interested...
...analog to John Silber wasn't Samuel Adams...