Scintilla wrote:It's an SDAT player, not an MP3 player.
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Otohiko wrote:Heh, I recall when these things used to cost quite a bit. My dad had a portable DAT player years ago; the thing cost him a fortune.
Not in 2014 though, I suppose


The Floyd wrote:Scintilla wrote:I believe it stands for Super <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Tape">DAT</a>.
I stand educated
CDs were in their infancy when Evangelion came out? That doesn't sound right. I remember seeing CD longboxes in music stores as early as 1985 and that's only because I never went into them before that. And my family bought our first CD player in 1987. Eva came out in what, 1995-96?GloryQuestor wrote:At first, I was surprised they thought S-DAT would last well into that year, but then you have to think that the Second Impact occurs in 2001.
At the time they made Evangelion, CDs were still in its infancy, and no one had even considered DVD. Even though disc media could have been the future for Eva (and turned out to be our future), it's most likely that the cataclysmic destruction brought about by the Second Impact changed all of that.
By 2014, due to the loss of resources and major cities (not to mention these Angels that keep attacking), kids probably weren't in jobs and couldn't afford to get anything high-tech like today.
paizuri wrote:CDs were in their infancy when Evangelion came out? That doesn't sound right. I remember seeing CD longboxes in music stores as early as 1985 and that's only because I never went into them before that. And my family bought our first CD player in 1987. Eva came out in what, 1995-96?


GloryQuestor wrote:paizuri wrote:CDs were in their infancy when Evangelion came out? That doesn't sound right. I remember seeing CD longboxes in music stores as early as 1985 and that's only because I never went into them before that. And my family bought our first CD player in 1987. Eva came out in what, 1995-96?
Well, the technology was here in the 80s, but CDs never took off early for the same reason most technology doesn't take off immediately: the technology in that era was very expensive.
It wasn't until around or after 1994 (when Evangelion came out) that CD Player prices dropped to the point that mid-range salary earners could afford to get one. Tape players were still considered the most economical (and recordable) media, though, just like when DVD machines premiered at high prices and everyone stick stuck by their VHS players until the prices came down.
So, by that logic, the Eva writers used their current viewpoint (of 1990-1993) to shape the future they were crafting out.
Since Shinji was most likely raised by a mid-range family (his teachers), they probably couldn't afford to give him more than a tape player and one tape, especially after the Second Impact and the aftermath that followed.
Because we didn't have such a global disaster, our future turned out differently -- DVDs are now economical and the standard of our market, but it took many years to get there.
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