[access-uk] Re: Re. Must you have a cassette copy?
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:08:19 -0000
Many thanks to all those who've contributed to this thread which I started this
morning.
I was prompted to put the question as my business colleague was annoyed we were
running
short of C90 cassettes, and could I squeeze a housing mag onto a C60 instead.
Well, as it
turns out, the answer was I could with some time stretching - or rather
squeezing - and
editing. We are amazed though that they still require around three times or
more cassettes
to CDs!
It would seem to me one sector we've left out a bit too much is the vol sector
- we do it
strictly for the money, (smile). Should RNIB and local societies be getting
people switched
over to CD players, and preferably DAISY players? If so, then blind people
themselves could
play a part in helping folk familiarize themselves with the new fangled players
too? I'm
afraid though that the much respected vol sector is all too often, the 'no can
do' sector,
IMHO.
Graham and maybe someone else brought up the issue of feedback which the humble
cassette did
allow for people to do easily. Surely there's no reason why listeners cannot
be encouraged
to send a cassette in with comments if that suits them. There is also the
phone too.
From the standpoint of practicality though CDRs seem the most practical medium
now, even if
they're not recyclable. CDRWs are a none starter. I'd go further and say
DAISY aught to be
the de-facto standard, but everyone would have to have a player. There's
unlikely to be a
national roll-out of these paid for by, say a Lotteries grant, so I see audio
CD as the way
things must go now.
Until that is, the internet and some easy-to-use radio like device comes of age
when
physical duplication and postage can go away for ever.
From Ray
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Graham Page
ted, you probably have it about right there I think though then again the
wallet and tape does cost them money. If people have enough interest to
want to read about computers regularly, I would have thought most of them
have the internet. What sort of costs are involved and how does paying for
a cassette of an appropriate quality plus a wallet compair with using CDs?
Also, I assume if they pay for the CD they can then choose to keep the CD
and just send back the or you could just keep sending them out in envelopes.
The other issue is that of readers communicating with you and I must admit
it is onE I had forgotten about.
With tape magazines, the people running the magazines would encourage
listeners to leave messages on the tapes and put elastic bands round the
tape when sending back to indicate that there was a message on it. This
generally worked well and encouraged feedback from users of the
service.These ar record once CDS and for home users, recording onto
rewritable CDs is not really that easy. Ease of recording is one thing we
have lost. The minidisk would have been ideal but for whatever reason it
just didn't really catch on.
Cheers
Graham
----- Original Message -----
From: <tedmart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 3:13 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re. Must you have a cassette copy?
Hello list,
I produce a monthly audio magazine on tape called "Talking Computers", for
VI computer users. The service is free, inasmuch that the listeners provide
their own tapes and postal wallets.
This month, I asked how many people would be interested in receiving CDs
instead of tapes, and paying a small subscription to cover the cost of
discs, stationery etc.
It's still early days, but so far the response has not exactly been
overwhelming.
This may be because they prefer to listen or download from the internet,
www.tc.pressakey.net or it may just be that people prefer a free tape to a
CD that has to be paid for.
Best wishes,
Ted
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