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Your thoughts on DCC?
For ages I've been planning to get around to transferring a whole bunch of cassettes to my PC (a mixture of old band rehearsals and demos, and ZX Spectrum games). But I didn't have a cassette deck and was at a loss to get a decent enough deck for a sensible price.
Step forward DCC. One eBay auction and £33 later (including postage) and I am now the proud owner of a Philips DCC900. As a digital recorder I can't yet comment on its facilities… but as a standard analogue playback deck, it's almost insanely over-engineered, with nice features such as a full complement of digital inputs and outputs, the latter of which chat very nicely to my soundcard and present a higher quality conversion than the card's own D/A converters. This seems to be a format that is remembered with fondness and I have to admit to feeling pangs of love for it now myself... |
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DCC was a complete disaster, you can't say it 'flopped', it never did enough to flop from.
It was perhaps a nice idea, but never sold, it was too little too late - with Philips trying to match their success with Compact Cassette. For those too young to remember, there were various different cassette formats over the years, with Philips eventually winning. |
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DCC was a complete disaster, you can't say it 'flopped', it never did enough to flop from.
It was perhaps a nice idea, but never sold, it was too little too late - with Philips trying to match their success with Compact Cassette. For those too young to remember, there were various different cassette formats over the years, with Philips eventually winning. ![]() I used to have a Tascam 38 in my study.... One day one of my little girl's friends wandered in, pointed to it and asked "what's that?".... "A tape recorder" I answered.... "ooooh" says she pausing for a moment, "what's a tape recorder?" ![]()
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And even when they had won there was still the Elcassette....
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Oh god, the 1/4" format thing? Sony? Really excellent quality but a complete failure...
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Oh god, the 1/4" format thing? Sony? Really excellent quality but a complete failure...
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I've never actually seen one, but I've got the service manuals for them - nice idea, but bombed big style.
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Somewhere at the back of a cupboard I have an EIAJ TIMELAPSE recorder! (not cassette I know but ) And I'm sure there must be a Umatic portable somewhere....
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They're quite sought after by collectors....
Somewhere at the back of a cupboard I have an EIAJ TIMELAPSE recorder! (not cassette I know but ) And I'm sure there must be a Umatic portable somewhere....
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For ages I've been planning to get around to transferring a whole bunch of cassettes to my PC (a mixture of old band rehearsals and demos, and ZX Spectrum games).
The audio on your cassettes represents data, and if you start compressing and processing it there's a very real danger it won't load properly. My missus got a DVD full of Spectum games from eBay, along with an emulator to play them on her PC - could that be a solution? |
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I can forsee a problem here with the ZX Speccy games.
The audio on your cassettes represents data, and if you start compressing and processing it there's a very real danger it won't load properly. |
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A lot of bands and studios used DCC - some probably still do. They were great for recording straight from the mixing desk if you didn't want to do much post production tweaking. And good enough to be used as a CD master.
Wish I still had mine
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When did anyone mention compressing or processing anything?.
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