Yes, and iirc they were less expensive. But the naysayers said they were on thinner stock, thus more prone to stretching, and definitely not designed for the shuttling that audio DATs were subjected to. I never ran any tests on that. -- Parker Dinkins on 1/21/10 3:26 PM US/Central, Richard L. Hess wrote: > Ahh, but some (many?) of us used DDS grade tape in our audio DAT > machines.