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Article: Tales from the tape crypt.(Soundings)(Column)
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- Tape-Disc Business
- Article date:
- January 1, 1997
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Welcome to Soundings, T/DB's highly opinionated, occasionally infuriating, always enlightening, new monthly column covering issues in audio duplication and replication. It should be noted at this early point that both non-linear and linear formats are grist for this mill. While optical formats are the shiniest stars in the prerecorded cosmos, tape continues to act as the plowhorse of the field, slogging on relentlessly if not pulling with the same gusto it once did.
In fact, tape as a concept offers the industry a sort of classic Vincent Price character: housed in the relatively antiquarian environs of the duplication facility (as compared with the sleekness of ...