[cr-india] on buying an mdt!

[Vickram Crishna]

At 6:04 PM -0700 4/27/04, soch at vsnl.com wrote:
>dear friends, i would be extremely grateful if someone could  kindly 
>advise me on buying a mini dat recorder, portable with broadcast 
>quality. I believe Sony has some good ones, but what model and what 
>is the price range? would deeply appreciate your help, maybe you 
>could email me directly at <mailto:soch at vsnl.com>soch at vsnl.com. 
>Thanks a million! sagari

DAT is digital audio (magnetic) tape, which gives digitally recorded 
sound quality, well up to (and quite possibly beyond) broadcast 
standards. The advantage of this technology is largely overtaken by 
subsequent developments in digital minidisc, a format that gives the 
convenience of opto-electronic digitil recording with the ease of use 
of non-linear editing.

If all sound will be transferred to computer memory (hard disks) for 
storage prior to editing, then the choice of recording medium is not 
critical, since transfer processes for both are linear.

In the spectrum of digital recording, I tend to think the DAT is best 
suited for backup, rather than field recording. This is a very 
computer-centric viewpoint, based on the advances made in computer 
storage (DAT), as against the convenience of a small field recorder 
that also offers superior editing on the fly (the MD).
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Vickram