[access-uk] Re: BBC NEWS | Technology | Not long left for cassette tapes (I feel no pain)
- From: "Kevin Cussick" <mm0tmg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 13:37:30 +0100
I agree tape should have had it's day long ago It's outdated and
unreliable just My thoughts
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Sent: 19 June 2005 12:54
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: BBC NEWS | Technology | Not long left for
cassette tapes (I feel no pain)
Hi Ray,
An excellent post I feel. The sooner the cassette dies for me, the
better.
The sound quality is now so much more inferior. Anyone remember when
Soundings went onto CD for a little while? Now play the current
edition,
(they went back to cassette from CD), and it makes one cringe, because
the
amount of sound quality lost through cassette duplicators really ruins
it,
not to mention wow and flutter introduced by heads and pinch rollers
that
are probably rarely cleaned.
Just my opinion of course.
All the best
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Sent: 19 June 2005 11:54
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Subject: [access-uk] BBC NEWS | Technology | Not long left for
cassette
tapes (I feel no pain)
Interesting post Colin, not least the reflections on the by-gone days
of
real time copying and the record industry's anxst over life copying in
the
slow lane, so to speak. Sure they'd have those days back again if
only they
could!
What perplexes me at times is how slow many of the VI community are in
accepting the benefits of digital media, and particularly DAISY and
DAISY
players, especially as you can get these for free on loan. One bloke I
know
moaned about the fact that his JAWS manuals didn't come on cassette,
but on
CD. He went out and bought a bog standard walkman-type CD player to
play
them on, in spite of the fact I'd told him about the DAISY players'
availability through the Talking Book arrangements with Local
Authorities.
The DAISY format addresses all the criticisms of the lack of ease
about
picking up where you left off, and you can mark areas of disks you are
interested in, and just as easily remove the marks afterwards.
Then there are still those who tell me how good it is that cassettes
for
magazines etc can be recycled and therefore how cost effective they
still
are. Really? How many of you have gone through the process of bulk
erasing
cassettes, and the time that adds to recycling hundreds of the damn
things?
Not to mention they sometimes, not very often though, snarl up. You
can buy
blank CDs in bulk for 10-15p each and it matters not that they aren't
re-usable. Add to that the possibility of distributing in MP3 or
other
format, and the time savings in duplication are obvious. Eventually
all
this duplication should become a thing of the past when we get an
easy to
use internet player, rather like a radio -cassette player to use. Oh
yes, I
knew the cassette would have to appear again somehow. Thank goodness
it is
only in the form of a metaphor for the interface to operate the
superior new
digital players.
For those who have missed the original Colin posted, go to:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4099904.stm
Ray
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