Future of DAT
In November 2005, Sony announced that its remaining DAT machine models would be discontinued the following month. Sony has sold around 660,000 DAT products since its introduction in 1987. However, the DAT format still finds regular use in film and television recording, principally due to the support in some recorders for SMPTE time code synchronization. It is slowly being superseded by modern hard disk recording equipment which offers much more flexibility and storage. In 2004, Sony introduced the Hi-MD Walkman with the ability to record in linear PCM. Hi-MD has found some favor as a disc-based DAT alternative for field recordings and general portable playback.
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