digital compact cassette
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71spud
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I remember DCC back in the day... it was the poor man's mini-disc and cheaper than DAT (Digital Audio Tape). You could usually play BOTH standard cassettes and DCC on the same player....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette
Just another death in the format wars....
Here are some players/recorders---
[ebay]230670803882[/ebay]
[ebay]260855304909[/ebay]
Ebay currently has 38 listings for "digital compact cassette", most of which are actually commercial music releases on DCC. I am sure there is an avid collectors market for this little niche....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette
Just another death in the format wars....
Here are some players/recorders---
[ebay]230670803882[/ebay]
[ebay]260855304909[/ebay]
Ebay currently has 38 listings for "digital compact cassette", most of which are actually commercial music releases on DCC. I am sure there is an avid collectors market for this little niche....
MasterBlaster84
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71spud said:
I vaguely remember that, it never really took off like any of the other formats if I remember correctly.
i was (and still am ) an early adopter. I purchased the phillips DCC 900 on launch day in the city i lived in. this high end store had 2 in stock.. a display and one to sel.. it cost me over 900 dollars.. dont ask me how i could afford this back in 1993... 
since then i have had 4 of these units. i love them. they use PASC encoding and the output was pretty good. it had SCMS which prevented me form using it as a backup to my HDD akai recorders in the studio. so i would run 2 track garbage masters onto this and use it for reference.
the last 2 i had stopped playing audio so i threw them in the rubbish bin since there is no place to repair them in the states. i still have a huge tape stock of these plus two head cleaners.
what was cool was you could search for tracks and if there was a track you were looking for on side B (you are on side A) and your location was close to it, it would know to simply reverse the heads and fast wind to the spot. this required constant timecode which meant you had to record a lead in and lead out (just like with DAT) in order to keep the TC constant.
i still have and use a dat machine daily. the issue with DCC was that the tape stock was the cost of a CD and you could not record on analog tape in the unit.. with people who had a large collection of analog blank tapes, they would be of no use in the DCC and they would have to go out and purchase DCC tape...
good stuff man....
since then i have had 4 of these units. i love them. they use PASC encoding and the output was pretty good. it had SCMS which prevented me form using it as a backup to my HDD akai recorders in the studio. so i would run 2 track garbage masters onto this and use it for reference.
the last 2 i had stopped playing audio so i threw them in the rubbish bin since there is no place to repair them in the states. i still have a huge tape stock of these plus two head cleaners.
what was cool was you could search for tracks and if there was a track you were looking for on side B (you are on side A) and your location was close to it, it would know to simply reverse the heads and fast wind to the spot. this required constant timecode which meant you had to record a lead in and lead out (just like with DAT) in order to keep the TC constant.
i still have and use a dat machine daily. the issue with DCC was that the tape stock was the cost of a CD and you could not record on analog tape in the unit.. with people who had a large collection of analog blank tapes, they would be of no use in the DCC and they would have to go out and purchase DCC tape...
good stuff man....
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