What are the advantages and disadvantages of DAT and MD?
DAT: • Holds 180 minutes of music • You’ll never need to switch DATs half way through a show • Better than CD quality • The actual tape used in DAT degrades with time • DAT can randomly fail uring recording • Very expensive MiniDisc: • Holds 80 minutes of music (or 160 minutes in mono) • It takes about 30 seconds to switch from one MD to the next one • Lossy compression • MiniDisc is much more stable • MiniDisc is usually OK, unless you bump it hard • Reasonably priced
