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Demand actually increasing for cassette tapes
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article published on 18 May, 2009
After having its downfall predicted for over a decade, it appears that demand for cassette tapes is actually increasing, with sales of the blank tapes increasing year-on-year.
TDK, the current market share leader for cassettes, has said it has sold one million of the blank tapes in the Q1 2009 already, blasting past expectations.
"We're pretty surprised actually because tape sales ... [ read the full article ]
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5fdpfan
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19. May 2009 @ 00:21 |
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I could understand lawyers using them for that purpose, but I'd be really surprised if demand for those ancient things spreads beyind them to the general public. I for one have no use for cassettes any longer.
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cart0181
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19. May 2009 @ 02:27 |
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LOL, it's because of the frivolous lawsuits.
On the other hand, wouldn't those be MICRO-cassettes? I couldn't see a serious big-shot lawyer carrying around a huge desktop cassette recorder everywhere he went.
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Postoast
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19. May 2009 @ 03:17 |
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Learning a foreign language using optical disks sucks. You cannot rewind back say, 5 seconds to hear the sound again. With a cassette tape it's easy. I remember taking a test where the test questions were placed on a DVD and sectioned off by chapters. It was pure hell to navigate when you wanted to only listen to a particular portion. Setting up DVD menus is also a pain in the butt.
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19. May 2009 @ 07:28 |
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Originally posted by Postoast:
Learning a foreign language using optical disks sucks. You cannot rewind back say, 5 seconds to hear the sound again. With a cassette tape it's easy. I remember taking a test where the test questions were placed on a DVD and sectioned off by chapters. It was pure hell to navigate when you wanted to only listen to a particular portion. Setting up DVD menus is also a pain in the butt.
DVD has rewind and fast forward, but tapes are more simple for stuff under a hour length and not as costly as digital recordings.
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It seems devices have not really caught up to using removable flash as its meant to be used IE you buy a 20-100 recorder and then your storage medium be it SD,Micro SD or flash.
Hell I have had cheap working devices to use normal USB flash drives up to 4GB on mini MP3 players and boomboxs there is no reason they can not be used for other devices such as recorders and what not.
The media industry has damaged the innovation in the audio and video market for far to long......
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19. May 2009 @ 07:49 |
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Well since cassettes are making the "big come back" I can't see any reason why mini disks can't rise from the grave.
No time for Leap frog!!!
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19. May 2009 @ 08:20 |
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Originally posted by JOHNSTARR:
Well since cassettes are making the "big come back" I can't see any reason why mini disks can't rise from the grave.
I dunno how hard is it to get devices and blanks?
I prefer my mp3 player that holds 20+ hours worth of junk....
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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hendrix04
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19. May 2009 @ 08:20 |
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music students use tapes a lot. They have not figured out the whole digital recording thing yet ;)
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19. May 2009 @ 08:22 |
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Originally posted by hendrix04:
music students use tapes a lot. They have not figured out the whole digital recording thing yet ;)
MD's are digital... so are CDs....
speaking of cds analog sound to digital device for analog data is so very redundant.... 0-o
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19. May 2009 @ 08:33 |
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Yea I have an MD collection that i supposedly cannot listen to cause my damn MD player broke, and i found out that to get a recorder for MD costs almost twice that. All good things must come to an end. -
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19. May 2009 @ 08:35 |
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Originally posted by blueboy09:
Yea I have an MD collection that i supposedly cannot listen to cause my damn MD player broke, and i found out that to get a recorder for MD costs almost twice that. All good things must come to an end. -
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I dunno a quick google search finds player/recorders from 20-200.... kind like cassette recorders... LOL
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19. May 2009 @ 09:54 |
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Well for me this is really odd because personally I like to be a few years ahead of my own prediction. So I don't even use optical media anymore i stopped using cassette tapes so long ago that I can hardly remember.
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19. May 2009 @ 15:19 |
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i am one of those that still use cassette, i find there ability to ignore anything digital useful. i back up cd to tapes, records to tapes 8track to tapes, and mp3 to tapes, i also find that cassettes have a better deep compared to cd's and mp3s.
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joe777
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19. May 2009 @ 17:08 |
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I remember when you copied over a cassette tape to many times, the original track came through the new 1. Is that how all that rap nonsense made it? Cause they made a mistake by not changing the tape regularly:P
What shall we call it when the tape has messed up? Ah thats it REMIX. Lol.
No folks the tape has had its day, and hey cds have had their day also, even with all those linux distros that can boot from USB(if your old pc supports it) The MD never took off even seen them for car radios once upon a time and they were a flop. DAT machines are still being used in the studios but their time is also shortening. And lets not forget that all optical storage is on its way out. Ah mean once SSD has come down in price then its bye bye to the good old HDD. SSD with its no moving parts, blistering transfer speeds and portability make it the winnar by far, well that is except for the cost. Holy sugar and spice have you seen the cost for 250Gigs of SSD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Soon they will be affordable and @ read speeds of 250MB/s and writing @170MB/s we all want that. And hey there's no typo here thats MegaBytes not Megabits.
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ivymike
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19. May 2009 @ 17:32 |
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It's easy to understand why vinyl records & cassette tapes are making a comeback...You cannot put DRM on a record or casette. People are tired of having to break DRM just so they can upload their favorite music to their computer or mp3 player.
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iamgq
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20. May 2009 @ 07:41 |
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People being cheap is the real deal.
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20. May 2009 @ 13:35 |
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Originally posted by iamgq:
People being cheap is the real deal.
No just realistic, not everybody has buckets of money at there beckon, tapes are very useful more so than people realize.
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burninmad
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20. May 2009 @ 14:31 |
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I'm on my fourth DVD recorder(standalone)VCR combo too!After all of my recordings ,I thought this would be "the way to go"?But per my previous threads such as:"The Death Knell of the DVD recorder(stanalone)",I don't see ANY ads at Beat buy or the "other" Box stores?My brother and I had both got SV2000s(Funai) ,well priced(CHEAP!),his is still working(2007),my two ,both "fried"during a Thunderstorm.Nothing else did,although plugged in to an AR10S Acoustic Research Surge suppressor! I'm talking a single Lightning strike somewhere in the area,NOT direct hit here.The AR10S did protect my TV,Surround sound receiver,and a DVD/VCR player!Acoustic Research engineers said nothing was malfunctioning in the Surge suppressor,but kept it.AND sent me a "High End" NEW one!Technology of DVDrs? I still got 5 or 6 VCRs and find blank tapes(new) at Thrifts,etc.! So,Wassuupp? I got my VHS tapes from 10-15 years ago,but these DVds,will they "Live"?
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iamgq
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20. May 2009 @ 14:35 |
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Quote:
Originally posted by iamgq:
People being cheap is the real deal.
No just realistic, not everybody has buckets of money at there beckon, tapes are very useful more so than people realize.
Buckets of money? Comn now... Ill buy you a roll of 50 CDRW'S, bet theyll last you a lifetime.
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20. May 2009 @ 14:38 |
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Quote:
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Originally posted by iamgq:
People being cheap is the real deal.
No just realistic, not everybody has buckets of money at there beckon, tapes are very useful more so than people realize.
Buckets of money? Comn now... Ill buy you a roll of 50 CDRW'S, bet theyll last you a lifetime.
thanks for the offer but i already have a spindle of 30 CDRW's.
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22. May 2009 @ 15:42 |
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Originally posted by cart0181:
LOL, it's because of the frivolous lawsuits.
On the other hand, wouldn't those be MICRO-cassettes? I couldn't see a serious big-shot lawyer carrying around a huge desktop cassette recorder everywhere he went.
The police buy the tapes for the interview here in the UK
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varnull
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22. May 2009 @ 16:47 |
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yeah.. nazi uk
not surprised people are turning their backs in digital formats with the scumbag yankee impeeeeerialist behaviour of owning everything digital...
long live vinyl eh? .. they never killed it off in 30 years of cd's because we can still tape anything we can hear XD
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wazzat
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25. May 2009 @ 10:04 |
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1. CDs fall flat on their face because they can't be rewound or fast forwarded in a portable audio device or car player. 2. cds require more storage space per unit, when in cases. 3. USING A GOOD RECORDER. GROUNDING YOUR EQUIPMENT, AND USING PREMIUM RECORDING MEDIA, you get a great clean sound with tape. 4. As for cleaning your player/recorder, it was disappointing to learn that optical drives require cleaning too. Just drive down a bumpy road when your player needs cleaning. Another letdown, it tooks years to develop skip free cd players. DVDs- freeze or don't play when cloned, backed up in different machines. DVDF*B clones/full discs won't play in my upconvert LG. Don't have that problem with tapes.
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wazzat
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25. May 2009 @ 10:12 |
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1. CDs fall flat on their face because they can't be rewound or fast forwarded in a portable audio device or car player. 2. cds require more storage space per unit, when in cases. 3. USING A GOOD RECORDER. GROUNDING YOUR EQUIPMENT, AND USING PREMIUM RECORDING MEDIA, you get a great clean sound with tape. 4. As for cleaning your player/recorder, it was disappointing to learn that optical drives require cleaning too. Just drive down a bumpy road when your player needs cleaning. Another letdown, it tooks years to develop skip free cd players. DVDs- freeze or don't play when cloned, backed up in different machines. DVDF*B clones/full discs won't play in my upconvert LG. Don't have that problem with tapes. As for the US being scumbag Imperialists owning everything digital, Most of us don't have the money for all the crap. Where are you from Varnull? I'm sure we can run you down.
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wazzat
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25. May 2009 @ 10:20 |
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Anyone interested in purchasing/trading cassette tapes? Just inherited my dad's collection. Polka's, country. Anyone have Homer and Jethro tapes?
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joe777
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3. June 2009 @ 12:26 |
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Originally posted by wazzat:
1. CDs fall flat on their face because they can't be rewound or fast forwarded in a portable audio device or car player.
Yes they can, unless the cd players you are using are coal powered
2. cds require more storage space per unit, when in cases.
Wrong. How many mp3's can you fit on a 700MB cd-r compared to a 90Min tape?
3. USING A GOOD RECORDER. GROUNDING YOUR EQUIPMENT, AND USING PREMIUM RECORDING MEDIA, you get a great clean sound with tape.
Not as clean as a digital recording. Thats why ad converters were born.
4. As for cleaning your player/recorder, it was disappointing to learn that optical drives require cleaning too. Just drive down a bumpy road when your player needs cleaning. Another letdown, it tooks years to develop skip free cd players.
Heads need to be cleaned more than lasers. As for the bumpy road syndrome, I think thats got everything to do with buying a cheap head-unit. I never experienced that with the head-unit or a multichanger when they first come out. Or maybe you lived near a scrapyard where the roads are designed to wreck your car on the way there so you have to buy something from them:P
DVDs- freeze or don't play when cloned, backed up in different machines. DVDF*B clones/full discs won't play in my upconvert LG. Don't have that problem with tapes.
Again this is you being tight and not buying decent media. Try verbatim or tayo-uden and burn at a slower rate and with a decent burner.
As for the US being scumbag Imperialists owning everything digital, Most of us don't have the money for all the crap. Where are you from Varnull? I'm sure we can run you down.
As always everyone speaks about the people who run the US. You know the ones!!!!! The corps of course not the politicians
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