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Conference napalm::commusic_v1

Title:* * Computer Music, MIDI, and Related Topics * *
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Moderator:DYPSS1::SCHAFER
Created:Thu Feb 20 1986
Last Modified:Mon Aug 29 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2852
Total number of notes:33157

671.0. "DAT update" by VIKING::SAVAGE () Wed Jan 21 1987 18:06

    On December 10, in Vancouver, a summit meeting was held between
    the representatives of the Electronics Industries Association of
    Japan and the International Federation of Phonographic Industries
    (IFPI). The IFPI represents record industry trade groups worldwide, 
    including the US Recording Industry Assoc. of America. The issue
    of the summit was whether the IFPI could convince Japanese
    hardware manufacturers of the EIAJ to incorporate anti-copy
    chips in digital audio tape recorders before they are introduced. 
    The outcome? As expected, the Japanese politely told their
    software colleagues to take their proposal, fold it two ways and
    take it where the moon don't shine. The inside word is that the
    Japanese came away from Vancouver more determined than before to
    proceed with DAT without the prerecorded software commitment
    they so earnestly sought. 
    {Audio Times, Jan, 1987} 

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671.1More DAT infoBAILEY::RHODESWed Jan 21 1987 18:495
For more info on the status of DAT, see Electronic Engineering Times Issue
417 (Monday, January 19, 1987) page 15.

Todd.

671.2Well? What's it say?FDCV01::SIDBDEVActually ISWISS::ARVIDSON - 223-2003Thu Jan 22 1987 19:374
For those of us who don't have access to the Mag how about a synopsis of
what it says?

Dan
671.3This did it say....BARNUM::RHODESWed Jan 28 1987 20:3016
Well, it basically stated that the argument between the manufacturers and
the record companies still rages on.  It also states that although DAT machines
exist today, they are a few years from being sold in stores even if the
aforementioned argument didn't exist simply because it needs to mature a
bit.

The thing that really t's me off is that home or studio (I like to call
it "original") recording is never mentioned - never even considered!
Of course, this can be attributed to the fact that more money is to be
made in the commercial end of things...

I guess that it is kind of useless to keep up with DAT until it exists -
commercially, that is...

Todd.