[access-uk] Re: BBC NEWS | Technology | Not long left for cassette tapes (I feel no pain)
- From: "Kevin Cussick" <mm0tmg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 18:12:58 +0100
Yes,
It's the old problem when a bit of kit gets designed for blind users I
think the folks that design it seem to think we have Cole bags as
pockets and also I think a bit of kit should look good as well just
because I am blind I don't want a bit of kit that looks crap I have
bought a bit of kit which looks really crap but it works well just my
thoughts.
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: BBC NEWS | Technology | Not long left for
cassette tapes (I feel no pain)
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>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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