Editing Digital Audio Tape (section)

=== Amateur and home use ===
[[File:Original Sony DAT Walkman.JPG|thumb|upright=1.25|Sony DAT Walkman TCD-D7]]
DAT was envisaged by proponents as the successor format to analogue audio cassettes in the way that the compact disc was the successor to vinyl-based recordings. It sold well in Japan, where high-end consumer audio stores stocked DAT recorders and tapes into the 2010s and second-hand stores generally continued to offer a wide selection of mint condition machines. However, there and in other nations, the technology was never as commercially popular as CD or cassette. DAT recorders proved to be comparatively expensive and few commercial recordings were available. Globally, DAT remained popular, for a time, for [[Taper (concert)|making]] and [[Tape trading|trading]] recordings of live music (see [[bootleg recording]]), since available DAT recorders predated affordable CD recorders. In the 1990s, fans of [[jam bands]], such as the [[Grateful Dead]] and [[Phish]], recorded and stored high-quality audience recordings of live concerts on the format.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lei |first1=Richard |title=The Hottest Band the World Has Never Heard |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1994/10/16/the-hottest-band-the-world-has-never-heard/a93436d8-b450-4d95-a995-ab2ac6ecfb12/ |newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=26 November 2019 |date=16 October 1994}}</ref>