Thank goodness DATs done
Some videos come together relatively easily...others want to fight back. Fortunately it's impossible to tell from the finished product...so please enjoy my DAT video...and I'll have a drink or two.
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Cheers for another awesome video. Greatly enjoyed this one. What were the difficulties in getting this one out the door?
The way I make videos is a bit unusual. They aren't scripted. I try to hold all the information in my head. I then collect all the video clips together, put them in an rough order...edit it down for length and then attempt to improvise a voice over on top of the video. This video ended up being way too complicated for that process...so in the end every minute of video took approx an hour to assemble. So it was a week of editing, followed by two days of voiceover work. Some of the DAT machines were bought as far back as 2015 for the purpose of this video...and many of the snippets from magazines were collected half way through 2016. In the end, it's been a two year process, which is a little bit ridiculous and definitely inefficient.
But did a DAT machine earn a spot in your HiFi-system? I guess not...
I need to buy a whole new HiFi rack...at that point I may as well add it in...however at the moment with no pre-recorded music to play on it and no way to play DAT recordings I make anywhere other than at home where I can play the originals...it doesn't make all too much sense.
A shame I cannot comment on that video directly. By commenting "First!" with a screenshot for proving, we could get rid off another big party of nonsense under your videos. Anyway, a great video. Good work and money good spent. I am stunned by the form factor of this second portable player. A few years ago, I got an analog microcassette recorder/player that was pretty small, too. I turned it on first but taking it apart came then, later. I noticed that apart from that electrical design, the mechanics were extremly well thought. Like a clockwork. Sonys engineers did a really great job until the big biten fruit came out to the world. Cheers from Germany aswell.
I had to turn the comments off on preview videos - you should see the level of confusion and anger it creates by having comments that were posted from the day before a video went live. The real marvel of miniaturisation was the Sony NT1 (a DAT based miniaturised tape player with a rotating head). <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXo3_wmqtEQ" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXo3_wmqtEQ</a>
Great video as always. Looking forward to the MiniDisc video. My NetMD MZ-N510 will always hold a special place in my heart.
A friend of mine had a DAT recorder to record performances. I'll ask if she still has it...
Nice bit of extra history in this one, really enjoyed! Had no idea there was such a hubbub regarding DAT, I only ever remember seeing these as a recording option briefly in musical instrument retailers.
Wow, what a rush to see my name in the credits! Who would have thought? Money well spent. Anyway, very interesting video again. I had never realized Sony buying Columbia had something to do with formats. Looking forward to your MiniDisc video. Fun fact: the prize tag on one of the sealed DATs in the video saying Saturn-Hansa: That tape obviously came all the way from Germany, the Saturn store on Hansaring in Cologne to be exact (I was just there this afternoon) and cost an odd 25 Deutschmarks back in the day.
I bought a handful of blank DATs from a chap in Germany on eBay so that makes sense. I'm glad the shop is still around, and that is a bit of a coincidence.
Superb mini-documentary. Many thanks!
I have an old Tascam DA-30 upstairs which was used to convert a whole load of old masters from a friend's studio to WAV/FLAC. If I recall correctly, while it was not allowed to sell devices whose only function was defeating SCMS, it was allowed to create a device where *one* of it's functions was defeating SCMS. So for example, you could get something like a Midman C03 which converts between multiple different digital connection types, and just so happens to have to ability to "strip" the copyright bit!
Excellent research, as always. Thank you. Lonplay was 32 kHz sample rate, not 36. Germany had Digital Satellite Radio / Digital Cable Radio back in these days that used that 32 kHz so you could record digitally from the radio. For the same reason you pointed out in the video "People should not be able to record (CD quality) from Radio" the digital radio stations were forced to lower the quality otherwise the music industry would have taken legal action. They even demanded to have the copy prohibition bit turned on at the receiver's digital output so recoding would be impossible even the first time. I remember this was highly discussed in the press back then.
Thanks for the correction... I'll put an annotation on the video (that no-one will read).
Excellent, as always. Thanks.
Wow you know even as plugged in as I am as a software guy, the whole devacle over DAT sounds a shitload line napster a lot later. History really does repeat itself
Matt your mentioned Patreon was like throwing a quid in the hat of a street performer for me it is like buying a mate a pint
Cheers....off to the fridge.
My guess was correct!
Just it time just finished a pint