Death of the cassette tape much exaggerated

sofaspud · 10th November 2012, 10:00 AM

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...

Jay · 10:36 AM

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...

Wavebourn · 10th November 2012, 08:02 PM

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

Frank Berry · 10th November 2012, 08:05 PM

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

DF96 · 11th November 2012, 02:00 PM

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!

Pano · 14th November 2012, 01:18 AM

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.

freax · 14th November 2012, 01:24 AM

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jay

Besides, technology wants everything to be smaller and smaller.

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...

Wavebourn · 14th November 2012, 01:49 AM

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.

wintermute · 14th November 2012, 01:55 AM

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.

Osvaldo de Banfield · 15th November 2012, 03:23 PM

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

10th November 2012, 10:00 AM	#1
sofaspud diyAudio Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: San Antonio	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 error only, and not truth, that shrinks from enquiry. - Thomas Paine

10th November 2012, 10:34 AM	#2
Jay diyAudio Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Jakarta	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... Last edited by Jay; 10th November 2012 at 10:36 AM.

10th November 2012, 08:02 PM	#3
Wavebourn diyAudio Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Pleasant Hill, CA	I left single TASCAM 112MK2 in my house only. And I forgot when I used it last time... __________________ If I disappear suddenly, that means I finally created a time machine and pushed wrong button that brought me to Stalin's Russia. In any experiment any result is the result. Even if it is negative.

10th November 2012, 08:05 PM	#4
Frank Berry diyAudio Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Midland, Michigan	I have a Nakamichi MR-1 which I haven't powered up in more than two years. __________________ Frank

14th November 2012, 01:49 AM	#8
Wavebourn diyAudio Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Pleasant Hill, CA	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. __________________ If I disappear suddenly, that means I finally created a time machine and pushed wrong button that brought me to Stalin's Russia. In any experiment any result is the result. Even if it is negative.


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11th November 2012, 02:00 PM	#5
DF96 diyAudio Member Join Date: May 2007	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!

14th November 2012, 01:18 AM	#6
Pano diyAudio Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: North Carolina Blog Entries: 4	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.

14th November 2012, 01:55 AM	#9
wintermute just another diyAudio Moderator Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Sydney Blog Entries: 22	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. __________________ Any intelligence I may appear to have is purely artificial! Some of my photos

15th November 2012, 03:23 PM	#10
Osvaldo de Banfield diyAudio Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Barrio Garay,Almirante Brown, Buenos Aires, Argentina	It makes me to remember the early "datasette" for the "Commodore 64" machine. __________________ LW1DSE

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