At 7:30 p.m. May 31, WFMT radio in Chicago made history with North America`s and probably the world`s first broadcast of a digital audio tape, or DAT. Telarc and DMP provided the prerecorded tapes of ...

Just when you thought it was safe to go into the compact disc waters, here comes yet another new format for recorded music. It`s digital audio tape–DAT for short–and it is being touted as the next ...

The Digital Audio Tape (DAT) recorder is the heir apparent to the analog compact cassette machine most of us have in our homes and automobiles. However, DAT is going through a long and difficult ...

Yamaha and Mackie mixers, Crown amps, Sony wireless mics, MD and DAT machines, 360 Systems Digi/Cart IIs, more than 80 Wohler amplifiers and other audio gear are part of an auction of cable TV ...

In 1985, promoters of digital audio tape recorders were champing at the bit. Their new machines for home use could reproduce music with much greater clarity than the old familiar cassette tape ...

When we consume our music online via streaming services it is easy to forget the days of recordings being contained on physical media, and to overlook the plethora of competing formats that vied for ...

The DAT system houses the tape in small cassettes roughly half the size of a standard analog cassette and is protected from dust and handling by the same kind of hinged door used for video tapes. As ...

Philips N.V., a large Dutch electronics company, created a stir in October when it announced that it was developing a digital tape recorder that also will be able to play conventional analog cassettes ...