Hi: They didnt catch on because they weren't allowed to thanks to the recording industry. They were a good recording medium IMHO. I still have one I bought on eBay. The nice thing about DAT is (presuming the recorder has them) the digital IO. If you are recording to a PC and your PC recording interface has digital IO capability, you can get excellent conversion quality. If its going to MP3 format, maybe that won't matter as much. Paul Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device -------- Original message -------- From: ken lawrence <kenlawrence124@xxxxxxx> Date: 11/11/2013 5:32 PM (GMT-05:00) To: tape@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [TapeVille] a question from a former member of the pandoras. Hi folks Karen blankfeld of the pandoras and rebel pebbles recently aked a question about not only cassettes but also DAT tapes. she wants to know is there any convertion means to convert DAT tapes. I know when they came out folks thought they really would catch on but they didn’t. any thoughts or ideas. thanks