[access-uk] Re: BBC NEWS | Technology | Not long left for cassette tapes (I feel no pain)
- From: "kevin and emma" <kream@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 14:02:01 +0100
agreed. but it does have advantages, especially in the audiobook world
still. sure the quality isn't the best, but at least you can stop a book and
it'll stay right at that point. books on cd are better quality, but
listening to one in a standard cd player ... by the time you've fiddled
about and found the place you left it! you've forgotten the plot of the
book! for music and the like though i wouldn't touch a cassette with a barge
pole!
kevin - co-owner/moderator of the blind gamers discussion list
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Cussick" <mm0tmg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 1:37 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: BBC NEWS | Technology | Not long left for cassette
tapes (I feel no pain)
> I agree tape should have had it's day long ago It's outdated and
> unreliable just My thoughts
>
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> Behalf Of Steve Nutt
> 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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> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of
> Ray's Home
> Sent: 19 June 2005 11:54
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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