Quality DATs can last a considerable period of time, but when they start to degrade the effects are quite noticable. As the magnetic oxide flakes off of the tape, the DAT deck becomes incapable of reading the data, and produces a noise somewhere in between an explosion and someone scraping their fingernails on a chalkboard. Needless to say, this is less than desirable. This and the problems with cueing make DAT more suited to recording effects and music for a production for playback in some other digital format such as compact disc. Specifically, no warranty is expressed or implied regarding the accuracy of the information contained within.
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