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Re: ATRAC compression

Subject: Re: ATRAC compression
From: Dan Dugan <>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:16:26 -0700
Dave Lauten, you wrote,

>I must agree with Walt though that it sure would be nice if someone
>stuck to some form of storage media/recorder for a long time and we can
>get over this endless debate as to what to use in the field!  Sure would
>be easier to make decisions.....but something tells me Walt that the
>company making it wouldn't make too much money on a workhorse machine
>that lasted forever and they would eventually run themselves out of
>business because they made such a good product! ; )  What irony!

That's sort of what happened to Nagra! 30-year-old Nagras are 
performing great today. Nagra judged DAT too unreliable for 
professional use (true), and as a consequence of that integrity lost 
99% of the film and TV market. Will recordists return to Nagra now 
that they have the removable hard disk Nagra V?

-Dan Dugan


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