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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! > > > > _______________________________________________________ Kim Flint 408-752-9284 Mpact Systems Engineering kflint@chromatic.com Chromatic Research http://www.chromatic.com