dprimary
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Since you ask.....
And, I'm sorry, but "the need" to transfer content using NTSC tape was a matter of economics and convenience.
In every other discussion we've had you seem to have insisted that studios are generally willing to spend a lot of money to achieve the best possible sound quality.
Are you suggesting that, in this case, they would have been UNWILLING to abandon the outdated U-matic format and replace it with one that would have worked better?
I'm being a bit facetious, but in defense of my point, which is that, when the CD format was developed, "low cost" and "convenience of implementation" were prioritized far above "best performance".
(They did NOT choose 44.1k because it "worked perfectly"; they chose it because it was easy to put on the tape equipment thwey already had.)
In the early 80's what other options did they have? U-Matic was a robust broadcast standard at the time. An U-matic tape machine was not exactly cheap, about the price of a luxury car at the time. and the tape A 1 gig hard drive was 550 pounds and cost around $90,000. Chances are if you shipped it you would lose the data. My first 1 Gig drive cost $1100 in the mid 90's. Within a few years you could get ten time storage at one third the price With it could edit 1 album I would transfer it in real time off of DAT edit it and transfer it back.