Imagine an audio format with the nostalgia of cassette, but the pristine sound quality and convenience of CD. It existed in the form of DAT -- so why didn't it catch on? Sources: 7-Pin Bible: http://www.core-sound.com/7-pin-bible.html Japanese DAT catalog pages: http://www.video-koubou-topaz.jp/SONY-AUDIO-1993.html DIY digital cable pinout: http://www.rockpark.com/d7/8_build.txt Home Taping is Killing Music image: http://i.imgur.com/CezxJ9c.jpg Popular Mechanics, June 1987 Headline News story on DAT from 1990: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYrzVylp9PM Prerecorded DAT tape image: https://i.imgur.com/mBW7vXd.jpg Broadcast studio DAT deck image: https://wgls.rowan.edu/_images/tour_production.jpg U-Matic deck image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Sony_U-Matic_SP_tape_recorder_%286498614625%29.jpg PCM adaptor image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Sony_PCM-1630_20111008.jpg U-matic cassette image: https://psap.library.illinois.edu/collection-id-guide/videotape ---------------------------------------­------------------------------------ Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisdoesnotcompute Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! @thisdoesnotcomp ---------------------------------------­------------------------------------ Music: "FBS", "Grey Skies", "Azurite", "Born in the 90s", "Call Waiting" and "Cafe Mornings" by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com/). Additional music: "Seaside" by Dan Mason (https://danmason.bandcamp.com/). Intro music by BoxCat Games (http://www.box-cat.com/).