You can blame greedy whining record companies for the fact that DAT did not
make it in the consumer market. They kept DAT vendors in the courts for years
regarding copy protection they wanted.
That goes along with what I heard. I also heard that Philips made some
pretty serious threats. Whatever the reasons, the companies managed to
keep DAT out of the consumer market and they are now trying to palm off
inferior quality products to a general public that don't know how their
spending power has been abused.
Greg