Sony and HP will launch next year cassettes DAT 320
By admin at 16 July, 2008, 10:33 pm
Designed by Sony in 80 years, DAT (Digital Audio Tape) never really erupted in France. She arrived to replace the good old theory K7 audio, but it was, unfortunately, somewhat ahead of its time. Smallest that the K7, DAT has found its way, but in a different way than Walkmans and chains Hi-Fi
In 1989, Sony and HP together define a format called DDS, for Digital Data Storage. This format reproduces the characteristics of the DAT but focusing only on the storage. If the thing you seem familiar, is that the DDS tapes have against largely found their place in business. When one hears of “tape” is precisely the DDS in question.
In recent years, digital media is losing momentum. The actual format has evolved to contain a maximum of 160 GB per tape, but this is not always enough. On the other hand, the extraordinary decline in prices of hard drives has made the mass storage within the reach of many small companies.
That is why Sony and HP have continued to work on DDS, and announced that the DAT 320 would be available shortly. These new tapes will be able to save a stream of 86 gigabytes of data per hour continuously, using a compression ratio of two to one. The DAT 320 will be compatible with 160, thereby understand that readers can use 320 the previous generation, but also the opposite: the 160 units can directly use the 320.
The DAT 320 should be available in 2009, and products from Sony and HP are compatible with each other, even if the storage units can display some specific refinements. Companies could then be interested in buying new tapes, knowing that the recording equipment need not be changed.
On the last twenty years, 18 million DDS recorders were sold, and the market is estimated at a value of 1.5 billion data for 2009.
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