Editing Digital Audio Tape (section)

=== Demise ===
Sony released its last DAT product with the DAT Walkman TCD-D100 in 1995 and continued to produce it until November 2005 when Sony announced that its remaining DAT machine models would be discontinued the following month.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sony Drops DAT|url=http://www.animenewsservice.com/archives/nov30.htm|publisher=Anime News Service|date=15 November 2005|access-date=29 August 2006|archive-date=27 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080527091928/http://www.animenewsservice.com/archives/nov30.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Sony had sold around 660,000 DAT products since its introduction in 1987.{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}} Sony continued to produce blank DAT tapes until 2015 when it announced it would cease production by the end of the year. Even with this, the DAT format still finds regular use in [[film]] and [[television]] recording,{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}} primarily due to the support in some recorders for [[SMPTE time code]] synchronisation, and sometimes by audio enthusiasts as a way of backing up vinyl, compact cassette and CD collections to a digital format to then be transferred to PC. Although it has been superseded by modern [[hard disk recording]] or [[memory card]] equipment, which offers much more flexibility and storage, [[Digital Data Storage]] tapes, which are broadly similar to DATs, apart from tape length and thickness on some variants, and are still manufactured today unlike DAT cassettes, are often used as substitutes in many situations.{{fact|date=July 2022}}