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I should qualify that my statement is subjective
(without hard data to back it up), but here in Nashville, TN, where many music
publishing companies used DAT as a storage media type for their catalogs, has
been quite a problem. The primary problems that we have seen are
incompatibility between players, and increasing error rates as the tapes age on
the shelf.
If the tapes are used with regularity, that also
seems to impact the shelf life.
Lastly, there are fewer and fewer machines
available from manufacturers (we discontinued ours 3 years ago). There
have been other posts with much more valid scientific data than mine, my post is
based on the experiences that we have had within the music
industry.
Hope this helps clarify.
-John Spencer
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