Death of the cassette tape much exaggerated
 

This article, as it turns out, isn't really audio related, but might be worth a guffaw or two. Or three.
They took a perfectly good story, and well...

It is not easy or simple for any big player to change the stream from digital to tape. Besides, technology wants everything to be smaller and smaller.

I have Nakamichi CR-5, CR-7 and some other better cassette players (but not as popular) taking space in my house. What a waste.

BTW, I have also many DAT players who take data from tape and apply digital technology in the middle of the process...

I left single TASCAM 112MK2 in my house only. And I forgot when I used it last time...

I have a Nakamichi MR-1 which I haven't powered up in more than two years.

It's a non-story. Various types of data cassette have been used for backup media for at least 30 years. The data density has been increasing over that time. Presumably some technically-illiterate junior hack decided (or was told) to rehash a routine press release and then a sub-editor placed a completely irrelevant headline above it. Then journalists wonder why they are held in such low esteem!

Yeah, kinda lame. And you know what? Hard drives don't use power if the are turned off - just like tape. I have several archives like that at home. They use zero power unless I need them.

nice story, I can't wait to pay 3 grand for a drive then $500 per tape...

I don't get why they don't release a new Laserdisc 12 inch format for 4K Blu-ray technology, as always though they are going to try and do it the hard way...

I have also a couple of Panasonic pro VHS-es, I keep them because it is a technological treasure. How much will cost today to build such machine? And they record stereo audio surprisingly nice, despite of lame FM coding.

I just moved house and my cassette deck didn't make it back onto the rack (mainly because the preamp is broken and I am running direct feed into the amp, which may be a touch loud with the tape deck ;) I too have a Panasonic HIFI VCR which does a very nice job recording stereo. It's an NV-F65

Tony.

It makes me to remember the early "datasette" for the "Commodore 64" machine.