European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Moves to end digital tape dispute by Andrew Pollack new York times r ecord companies and consumer electronic manufacturers have begun mowing toward resolving a dispute 1hal has Kepi digital audiotapes out of Iho hands of . Consumers. Digital audio laps recorders. Which Mako Crispo and cleaner recordings than conventional a Arnulto recorders Are being sold in Japan and Europe but nol the United states because of opposition by the record companies. They fear trial digital compact disks could be copied too easily thus depressing their sales. Now according to Industry and government officials at last month s consumer electronics show in Las vegas there appears Lobo movement toward resolving the matter this Spring. Among Iho possible compromises is the use of a device that would limit bul nol eliminate the consumer s Abi tily to make tapes of compel disks. Another approach would be to add to charge to the Price of digital i corders and Blank tapes to compensate record companies Lor lost sales. Digital audio tapes known As Dat Are the equivalent of conventional tapes in Iho same Way Hal compel disks Are the digital equivalent of traditional records. Both compact disks and digital Lapes Siloro musical Inlo Matran As a series olos and is a Alicr than As a signal corresponding to the sound Waves. Both Are free of noise and Hiss. Moreover even tapes of Lapes con sound As Good As the original. With conventional recording tape each copy deteriorates slightly Lor the original copies of copies become progressively worse. Record companies have proposed a system developed by lbs records Hal would remove a Liny Sliver of sound from recordings. Digital recorders would contain a Chip that would listen Lor this Sliver of sound ii missing the machine would not record record companies say the missing sound would to undetectable musicians and High Fidelity aficionados disagree a House subcommittee last August approved a Bill mat would ban digital tape machines for one year unless they contained the so called spoiler Chip Tho legislation has zapping the on editors Kurt Andersen Lelle. Gaydon Carter. Satirical Bromlow at new Yorton Pompo Alty. By Stefan fat Bis associated press by Magazine which set out just Over a year ago to Bill the Ankles of Iho has managed to insult Mast of new York s glitterati and Many of the nation s Rich and Lamous. There Aio no sacred cows at spy. Which gets its name irom a 19-10 movie it has skewered the Kennedy dynasty mocked successful Short men exposed the colleges of the dumb and zoomed in on the wrists necks and Cheeks of women who arc too Rich and Loo irreverent is the word most often used to describe the sell style new Yolk monthly that publishes 10 limes a year in cramped while walled loft like quarters on Manhattan s lower East Side in the parlance of spy. Dan rather is a vainglorious Anchor Guy and his Boss lbs president Laurence Tisch is a churlish Dwarf billionaire Henry Kissinger is a Chubby socialite War criminal and Gloria so Cine re a girl lend of Rich Tho editors of this cynical and sometimes pretentious magma say Iho secret of their Success is Good solid reporting we re no objective and Lai minded in lha traditional journal Suc says co editor Kurt Andersen 33. A last talking Harvard graduate from Omaha. Neb. But it anyone s doing objective journalism without fear or 1avor, it s us. A s not us Cranky Young Andy Rooney opinions it s lad listed and scientific sometimes Ince piously scientific investigative Long playing recordings Are getting longer by Jon Pareles naw York times a s cassettes and compact disks Havo Comelo dominate the Market Lor recorded music Moie performers Are taking advantage of the extended length of Terud by the new format Consumers who Are paying Premium prices Tor compact disks have begun to expect More minutes of music but the added length is in Cwm Down. Even the 12-Incn. 33 rpm up is being packed with More than an hour of Muse. When the up dominated recording a typical pop album had Between 17 and 22 minutes of music on a Side some los. Lixe the Tirol beatles albums or Prince s duly Munct. Clocked in at loss than 30 minutes of Muse. There Are still plenty of albums and cd with toss Titian 40 minutes of music. Bul recently such Best Selling groups As genesis and dire Straits have put More than 50 mules of music on an up. Del Leppard s recent hysteria and Dokken s Sac Tor the a Hack twin have More than an hour of hard Rock and a reissue of Metallica s Kik Emall. Includes entry songs Hal Lake its length to 66 mules even compact disks Are being stretched Hyk disc Usa has just announced that in will Issue a compact disk compilation of the Boston band Mission of Burma that runs so Page 14 the stars and stripes minutes. Ever since people discovered thai singing through e hollow Renfrd changes the sound of a voice technology has shaped said Evan Eisenberg author of who recording Angel Etal Aralios n . A Book about the of Leils of receding on music. 1 people Liko to think that technology is the Humble servant of the Arlisle bul sometimes in s the other Way he said. Just As work e. Hands to Lite available Lime an Arhat s message expands of till the available medium people Ihrk Hal they air already saying what icy Nave to say within the confines of a certain Tarn but As soon As they find that the con pcs have expanded they find they have More to say " artists always want to put More music on an album said Karin Berg East coast Arliss and repertory director Al Warner Brothers records. Now. The expanded length of cassettes and cd is going to not Ord creative possibilities " limitations on the length of albums have been in Pai 1, a matter of physics loud sounds and Low Bass notes demand wider grooves and on in up Groove space is Al a Premium Manuale lung an album involves a process called mastering in which the Masler tape is transited to a master disk mastering engineers have the Lask of making the music sound As vivid As possible within lha wednesday be
