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Reel to reel, cassette and other analogue tape formats.

not very many... doomed from the beginning

As I recall there were great many plans made for Dolby S; one of the main quoted benefits were the fact that you could (supposedly) playback Dolby S encoded tapes with very little degradation in sound quality through a regular Dolby B decoder. The premise was that by the time "S" came out, "B" was so proliferated that Dolby figured most people could get the benefit of "S" encodings through virtually any stock of tape deck they had; ie. "B", including their walkman's, car's, etc...

Problem was that by the time "S" came around, few decks had adopted it (though oponents of the system claimed it was unnecessary) and Sony' MINIDISK was being launched with a fanfare... hence very little prerecorded "S" tapes were ever made and that was that! :)


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  • not very many... doomed from the beginning - danny kaey 08:44:58 06/27/04 (0)


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