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Re: CD recorders



uh, did you guys somehow miss the point that this particular Philips box
records directly to both CD-R and CD-RW? With both digital and analog audio
I/O? And only costs $600? CD-RW media is expensive now because it is new,
same as CD-R disks were three years ago. So you could use the cheap CD-R 
now
and switch over whenever the price and extra convenience of CD-RW makes you
feel happy.

For me, as someone beginning to contemplate a serious home studio, I had
been wondering when abouts I should seriously consider getting a DAT deck
for master mix downs, live recordings, etc. I would much rather get
something that can go directly to CD. With that I can easily listen to it 
in
the car, in the boom box at the park, in the stereo, at a friend's house,
etc, none of which I can do with DAT or hard disk. I can store it in a
shoebox in the garage and not worry about tape oxidation. I can pop it in
the computer and pull up the data directly and easily. Why would I ever
consider DAT now? 

And one of these years, if we are very lucky, all of the warring factions 
of
DVD will come to some agreement about which re-writeable DVD-RAM format to
use, and how to encode musical recordings for DVD disks, and how to deal
with all the piracy/encryption issues, and that will be a great
standard....don't hold your breath though.....

kim


At 12:55 PM 1/13/98 -0800, Stephen P. Goodman wrote:
>Matthias Grob <matthias@bahianet.com.br> intoned:
>
>
>>>BTW, I read the specs on that philips CD-RW jobbie, damn that looks 
>cool!
>>>Who needs DAT anymore?
>>
>>I use mine to record what I do on stage :-)
>>
>>Those RW media are a lot more expensive and the machines about doubble,
>>too. So calculate how many CDRs you record that are not worth saving and
>>how many CDRs you can trash until its worth working with CD-RW...
>
>
>I concur!  I think a fast hard drive with a lot of free space works just
>fine for immediate recording, and CDRW would be fine if it weren't so
>expensive.  What does anyone have against 'regular old' CDR?  :)  It would
>seem that the media cost (or costs incurred by the media, like perhaps
>speed/capacity) is still the issue.
>
>Stephen Goodman           * http://www.earthlight.net/Studios
>EarthLight Productions     * Get the Loop Of The Week Free!
>
>
>
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