[access-uk] Re: BBC NEWS | Technology | Not long left for cassette tapes (I feel no pain)
- From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 19:26:27 +0100
Hi Kevin,
That is not such a clear advantage any more with cassette, stopping where
you left it. Some MP3 CD players, such as the Irivers do this, also the
Book Courier does it admirably with MP3, not to mention that you can put
multiple bookmarks in an MP3 with the Book Courier. You can't do that with
cassette. No, I feel excuses for keeping the cassette have gone on far too
long, as has the medium itself.
All the best
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kevin and emma
Sent: 19 June 2005 14:02
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: BBC NEWS | Technology | Not long left for cassette
tapes (I feel no pain)
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!
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Cussick" <mm0tmg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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 I agree tape should have had it's day long ago It's outdated and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-----
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> 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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> mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
>
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