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To: Frank Drumond who wrote (5954)	1/16/1999 4:00:00 PM
From: Mike Perras	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Frank .. Haven't we seen this before with Sony .. they make great products but sometimes they simply rush their products to the street. I'm in radio & Sony came out with something called an L Cassette machine. It was supposed to allow news people who are out on the road the ability to record onto L cassette tapes with the same quality they'd get in the studio with 7 inch reel to reel tape .. go out to a story & come back with the final product & then pop your L casstee into the production studio & not have to redub from one source to another & loose quality .. a few problems though, this damn thing weighed about 40 pounds or so it seemed, the batteries alone would kill you & the cassette was exactly the size of a VHS tape .. so if you needed a half dozen you needed to hire someone just to carry your gear .. the intention was to improve sound quality & they did that for sure .. just never tested it in the field, had they gone to 10 radio stations & said try these for 2 months & give us all your pro/con feedback .. they never would have made them .. as a result Sony killed the product after God knows how much was spent. Field test everything & save a fortune. IMO Sony makes as good a product as you'll find, their R&D needs another layer to avoid these faux pas. Mike