Death of the cassette

[lk_ie]

Re: Death of the cassette

Just to prove that not everyone who likes cassettes is an "Old Foggy" here we have a young YouTuber into cassettes and other "vintage" audio and video.

http://www.youtube.com/user/DrCassette

[vanhelsing]

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Think I've still got my Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter cassette single somewhere.

[cinstress]

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I remember not buying a cassette unless I liked two or three songs from the artist so it would be worth the money. Now artists don't have to make a great "album' because people buy single MP3s. Although I guess people still buy CD's. We still do occasionally

[Trickyvee]

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I miss cassettes. I used to love buying packs of blank tapes then creating my own compilations with songs recorded from the radio. I'm easily pleased and at 13 the discovery that I could record straight off the radio using my new hifi absolutely blew me away. Before that I was holding a little cassette recorder up to a crackly old radio which was hopeless.

I still have many of my old tapes, although some of them have gone faded and crackly. I listened to them so much when I was young that they can take me right back to particular times and places when I hear them now. I'm still sad that some of my bought tapes were all too quickly chewed up or snapped in the hifi.

I also remember the blank bit at the start of the cassettes which once creeped me out as it had a weird noise that sounded like a heavy breather!

[stockportyears]

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I'm sure the police still use them for interviews. MP3s and other computer records are too easily tampered with, a few clicks of the mouse can get rid of 'SMACK! AAARRRRGHHH! KICK! PUNCH! OOOOFFF!' and just leave 'yeah yeah, I did it'. Try getting all of that off a cassette!

[vanhelsing]

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You can still get them in off licenses

[darren]

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What part of Ireland are you from, Darren??

You don't seem to have had a lot of anything where you grew up!

Is it a remote part?

not remote at all mate.im from co armagh in northern ireland mate.
about a 45 minute train hourney from belfast.

newsagents where i love probably did sell them i just cannot remember.
i remember a toy shop called odds and bobs sold them.
shop is gone now aboit 15 yrs.

it sold everything from toys,to computer games,blabk videos. etc etc.

[sixtyten]

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What part of Ireland are you from, Darren??

You don't seem to have had a lot of anything where you grew up!

Is it a remote part?

[darren]

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You can still buy blank cassettes in any newsagents.

i never knew u could buy blank tapes from newsagents.
i went into many newsagents and bver saw them.
unless they where kept out of view.

[vanhelsing]

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Believe it or not, they're STILL available.

[cheazypeaz]

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Its sad. Fair enough now we have the ability to record on to CD or DVD media, but I am of the opinion that optical media is not has reliably as magnetic media. I speak from experience on this. A few years back (5 years) I put something on to a CD. When I come to access it a few years later the disc is un-readable. It has always been stored in its jewel case and has no visible scratches on it.

I have cassette tapes with 30 year old recordings of the Top 40 singles, and these still play. In my opinion, providing the cassette tapes are kept in their boxes and away from dampness, they will have a long archive life.

Old technology, such has video tapes/recorder, cassette tapes, that have become obselete in the name of so called progress. Take the modern replacement for the video recorder/video tape, the recordable DVD, the hard drive/DVD recorder. If you have the hard drive crash on these, then all the recordings have gone, the longevity of the recordable DVD has not been proven yet, and I feel it is not a reliable enough media to rely on, with my own experiences. I have never had a recording lost on a video tape, and maybe I've been lucky, but I've never had a video tape snap or get tanglled up inside of my video recorder either. I have recordings on video cassette of Top Of The Pops from 1987 and the quality of them is the same has it has always been.

My opinion of a lot of new tech now is that, its making the task more complicated than it needs to be, its for the sake of so called progress, and sometimes its going backwards from what we already had.

Sorry for bumping an old thread but I could not agree more. I think the same of digital cameras, my family has neagtives and prints of photos dating back to the 50s. How many people have lost photos do to flash cards corrupting or hard drive crashes?

I have also lost data off CD's I have burned, they just become unreadable with old age for some reason.

[Fatboy]

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Its sad. Fair enough now we have the ability to record on to CD or DVD media, but I am of the opinion that optical media is not has reliably as magnetic media. I speak from experience on this. A few years back (5 years) I put something on to a CD. When I come to access it a few years later the disc is un-readable. It has always been stored in its jewel case and has no visible scratches on it.

I have cassette tapes with 30 year old recordings of the Top 40 singles, and these still play. In my opinion, providing the cassette tapes are kept in their boxes and away from dampness, they will have a long archive life.

Old technology, such has video tapes/recorder, cassette tapes, that have become obselete in the name of so called progress. Take the modern replacement for the video recorder/video tape, the recordable DVD, the hard drive/DVD recorder. If you have the hard drive crash on these, then all the recordings have gone, the longevity of the recordable DVD has not been proven yet, and I feel it is not a reliable enough media to rely on, with my own experiences. I have never had a recording lost on a video tape, and maybe I've been lucky, but I've never had a video tape snap or get tanglled up inside of my video recorder either. I have recordings on video cassette of Top Of The Pops from 1987 and the quality of them is the same has it has always been.

My opinion of a lot of new tech now is that, its making the task more complicated than it needs to be, its for the sake of so called progress, and sometimes its going backwards from what we already had.

[vanhelsing]

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You can still buy blank cassettes in any newsagents.

[Richard1978]

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I've still got a load of tapes I occasionally listen to. Both ones I put together & prerecorded. Talking books seem to last a bit longer on tape compaired to music, I picked up a copy of Meera Syal reading Anita & Me at a sale at my local library a few weeks ago.

I went through a few with old chart shows on to transfer all the tracks off that I didn't have elsewhere.

I didn't have too many tapes break, but my Dad had a roll of splicing tape handy for any breakages.

These days I can afford to buy CDs, & any compilations I've done & want to keep I put onto Minidisc, which is a very underated format.

The later ones could hold 4 CDs worth of music on a MD, & could have files transfered onto them from a computer, even from MP3s.

[ArchStantonsGhost]

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I used to tape the whole top 40 singles chart from the BBC Top 40 show with Tommy Vance every other Sunday. Freemusic!

I used to hate when he talked over the intro music to a top song.

Must say I love the way I can store playlists on my pc. Far superior to tapes anyday............... but I will always have a soft spot for Tommy - and cassette tapes.