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Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder

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115 points naves | 2 comments | 30 Jun 25 18:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.408s | source
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ilamont ◴[30 Jun 25 19:00 UTC] No.44426689[source]▶
For all its notional advantages, DAT never really caught on in the domestic market, although it was somewhat more popular in professional applications.

It was positioned and priced as a professional device.

In 1990 you could get a decent portable CD player for about $100. That was enough for most consumers.

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1. jaredhallen ◴[30 Jun 25 22:26 UTC] No.44428597[source]▶
Plus with a cd you could skip directly from track to track. No messing around with fast forward and rewind to find a song. Unless maybe DAT had that functionality? I never used it.
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2. hackingonempty ◴[01 Jul 25 05:32 UTC] No.44430884[source]▶
Yes the machines let you place track markers and the next/prev track button would seek to them. Not as quickly as a CD, of course.