[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 14:09:18 +0100
maybe the acceptance or lack of it, has been to do with size and
portability? when the RNIB's talking book service went digital and sent out
the victor reader player, it didn't exactly fit in your pocket! mainstream
discmans did and still do. you can cram such equipment full of all sorts of
useful features like the markers etc, but size and portability for some is
far more important. personally, the markers save so much time and messing
about, i wouldn't be without such a feature!
kevin - co-owner/moderator of the blind gamers discussion list
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From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 11:54 AM
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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