Philips DCC and the DAT, the future that never was

1993, thanks AB388!
20,000,000 units by the year 2000, too bad it didn't happen, the music media business was wild during those years. It's interesting how the music industry hated recording devices but a few years later digital music files and players came out making it extremely easy with the internet going high-speed.

 

Philips from 1992

 

Stereo Review 1995, cool looking deck, I wonder if Technics also had DAT, Panasonic did but did they brand one Technics?

 

From 1987, it looks like first gen equipment?

 

1992

 

From 1991, JVC jumping into DAT, this one has to be rare.

 

1993, Panasonic's DCC

 

A neato Sony!
First time I've seen this with a DAC, this is heavy duty looking, I think it says 69,800 Yen just for the TCD-D7 and another 40,000 Yen for the DAC

 

1992, yes, want a Marantz DCC! How rare do you think they are?

 

1998 Tascam DAT, check out the dual DAT version.

 

Philips 1993, Penthouse, yep, this would have been awesome!

 

1993 Le Haut Parleu
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1988 ETI Magazine. We wanted it but the record companies didn't, the Politics Section is interesting and the record companies pretty much delayed this product in the USA for years at least for home consumers.

 

Casio never struck me as a cassette player company but they were very early in on DAT, from Stereo 1988. I've seen the other Casio Model but never this one.

 

One of Sony's First DAT Machines.

 

Sony TCD-D10 from 1988

 

From 1994, some Denon DAT, Denon really embraced the digital formats.

 

1994, I bet these are hard to find! I'll take one of the cars while I'm at it.

 

Some tasty Panasonic DCC Equipment

 

tasdc66 just posted this gem! Yep, 60,000 Yen for the player and double for the decks, this was not a cheap format and the tapes were something like $20 USD each. For me personally, price killed any of the new digital formats, I got a portable RCA CD player with speakers and car kit for around $75 USD at this time.

I do find it curious that the player's designs looked more like CD players. CD players weren't really designed for function, they could look like anything, I always liked the square boxy models much more and maybe DCC would have gotten more ground if it had it's own design appeal?

and because this is in Japanese, it's a pretty good chance that the players were built there, anyone know the builder? I might have to reread the previous articles, they might mention it.