Currys to cease stocking cassettes
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Topic: Currys to cease stocking cassettes
Posted By: Bob Greece
Subject: Currys to cease stocking cassettes
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 06:59
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/08/goodbye_tape_dorks/ -
Currys to cease stocking cassettes
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 07:53
It was about time.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 08:20
| Yep. Now I finally have a car with a CD player, I can't see any reason why I'd need to buy a blank tape again. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 08:33
*prepares for Olivier's entry claiming that tape is superior to CD* ... 
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Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 08:40
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Crickey! I'd better rush down to my nearest store and buy all that they have left.
They'll be doing away with 8-Tracks next! What's the World coming to? 
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 08:56
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^ 8 tracks, tapes ... next they'll forget words like "Crickey"!
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Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 09:00
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MikeEnRegalia wrote:Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 11:17
A case of "I'm alright Jack" if I ever heard one!  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 11:36
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Well spotted Bob - i found a similar article on yahoo
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pocketli/20070508/ttc-currys-stops-stocking-another-analog-57dbc65.html - http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pocketli/20070508/ttc-currys-stops-stocking-another-analog-57dbc65.html
Having first been entranced by cassette tapes around 1972 or 73, they were my main recording format until fairly recently. Good on little players fitted into the car (used to pick them up for about £10 new), their shortcomings became really apparent only after seriously upgrading my entire system. At 1-7/8 inches per second tape hiss was always a problem, though at one stage i owned a Nakamichi ZX with some metal tapes, the sound quality was astounding, the best i've heard from a cassette, but although i have a computer program (Audio Cleaning Lab 2005) that can record from any source, limited only by the amount of space on the hard drive, i recently ditched all my cassette equipment and took up reel to reel tape machines, an Akai GX4000D (7 1/2 inches per second) and a Teac A-3440 4 channel for live recording, at 15 inches per second the quality is fabulous, far superior to cassette as expected, and using quality Ampex 456 tapes (now discontinued) no tape hiss! It eats tape though is good for short runs of an hour of less using 10-1/2 inch reels.
so no tears shed for cassettes, though i expect the tapes and machines will still be available for a long time to come, and maybe reel to reel!
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 11:36
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did away with my last cassette tape about 2 years ago....
did away with my last video tape about 4 years ago...
did away with my last LP about 14 years ago...
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Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 11:42
^ did away with your LP's..?? 
Olivier where are you - some sacriligeous comments being made here....
 they'll be scrapping the steam-driven turntable next...
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 11:43
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I stopped using cassette tapes in the mid 90s, video tapes ... I think I was using them until mid 2003.
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 11:49
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Still using videotape.
Still using audio tape.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 11:53
Time to get rid of those 78s Ian!
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 12:11
 I was surprised last year when I bought my used car that it still had a tape deck, and keepîng my cassettes was helpful, while I recuperated my Cd player in the old car and install it. Since I'm the rather not hurried type (as long as I have music I choose) , this lasted a few months. I heard some stuff I hadn't heard in decades
 . I had stopped producing home cassettes in the late 80's. Videotapes I still use mostly for interfacing with my girlfriend's system.
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Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 12:24
my car still has a steam-driven cassette deck -
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 12:49
I believe Olivier still swears by his in car Bang Olufsen & Smithers gramophone:
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 12:49
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 13:30
Let me add an American word that I like: Fiddlesticks!  ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 13:32
Corks!
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Posted By: The-Bullet
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 14:54
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Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 15:30
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 15:37
Exqueeze me ... I heard it first in an American sitcom. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 15:40
A search on google gives this (from http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-fid1.htm - http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-fid1.htm } [Q] From Brian Archimbaud: “I’m looking for the origin of fiddlesticks.” [A] A fiddlestick was at first just a violin bow. (Both fiddle and violin come from the Roman goddess of joy, Vitula, who gave her name to a stringed instrument; fiddle came down to us via the Germanic languages, violin through the Romance ones.) Fiddlestick is recorded from the fifteenth century, and Shakespeare used a proverb based on it in Henry IV: “the devil rides on a fiddle-stick”, meaning that a commotion has broken out; the imagery is obviously related to the broomstick of a witch, and perhaps there’s some thought of the noise a fiddle might make if the devil got to play it. At some point in Shakespeare’s lifetime, it seems fiddlestick began to be used for something insignificant or trivial, perhaps because fiddle-playing itself was regarded as something worthless or inconsequential. It took on a humorous slant as a word one could use to replace another in a contemptuous response to a remark. George Farquhar used it in this way in his play Sir Henry Wildair of 1701: “Golden pleasures! golden fiddlesticks!”. From here it was a short step to using the word as a disparaging comment to mean that something just said was nonsense. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 17:11
Is that some kind of obscure sexual perversion, Hugues? |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 18:18
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Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: May 09 2007 at 04:04
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Does that mean there are no lovingly prepared compilation tapes for girlfriends anymore? Oh the agony of trying to fit everything neatly onto two sides of a C90 with just the right gaps between tracks, just the right fades on recording level for tracks from live albums etc. It was such a labour of love/obsession/nerdy glory. Of course the tape was always received with a shrug and a non-commital "errr thanks, I'll listen to that ummm later" the subtext of which was "jeez, how did I hook up with this guy? Does he really think a live run-through of By-Tor & The Snow Dog is romantic? Is this Van der Graaf anything like Van Morrison? And just what is his generator anyway?" It's all too easy with a blank CD and i-tunes.... Young people these days bah!!! I am discombobulated. Now there's a good word... |
Posted By: Bob Greece
Date Posted: May 09 2007 at 08:40
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10 uses for audio cassettes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6634727.stm - http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6634727.stm
The last one really made me laugh. My daughter loves pulling the tape out of cassettes.
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: May 11 2007 at 12:22
Ooh - from cassette to comressed audio file; such quality that must be
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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: May 11 2007 at 17:13
Indeed - I have set about tracking down all the albums I ever recorded to cassette and am now buying them - just as I promised myself I would at the time I taped them - since it's morally wrong to steal someone else's hard work and intellectual property.
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