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This paper provides a history of digital recording technology, from the advent of digital technologies in the late 1960s to the development of modern digital recording technologies like CDs, DVDs, MP3 files and others. The benefits of this transition from analog to digital technologies are provided.

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"In 'Getting into Digital Recording' Paul D Lehrman asserts Digital recording had revolutionized the world of audio in the last decade and a half. Just about any recorded music you hear today has existed in a digital format somewhere along the way. Despite the ubiquitous nature of digital recording technologies their history is relatively recent. Until the sixties all recording technology relied on a physical analog. Formerly only motion picture studios or large recording studios could afford digital recording."

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