Re: A viable alternative?

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:18:53 GMT, "Arfa Daily"
<arfa.daily@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>"James Sweet" <jamessweet@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:xEG2f.6792$at1.4981@xxxxxxxxxxx

<snip>
>> Cassettes? What are those?
>>
>> Seriously, does anybody still use them? I don't think I've owned an audio
>> tape player in close to 10 years, my nice Sony VCR has been collecting
>> dust
>> for over a year since the last time I remember using it, and I regularly
>> see
>> boxes of audio and VHS tapes up for grabs on craigslist. The technology is
>> even closer to extinction than consumer electronics repair.
>>
>>
>Whilst this technology is seriously on the decline, it's not quite true that
>nobody uses them any more. There's lots of material archived on these media
>and, whilst owners should transfer them to CD and DVD, they don't get round
>to it until they come to watch little Jimmy who died's third birthday party,
>and the tape breaks, or listen to that rare bootleg live tape of George and
>the Mudflingers at the Lower Bumstead Rock Festival of 1971, and it chews up
>in their machine ...

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**I agree with Arfa. I have a lot of VHS tapes that I'm archiving and
burning to DVD (though I wonder about burned DVD longevity). So, I
think there are still reasons for VCRs to stick around. On this past
trip back home to my parents, I found a cassette tape in the basement
from 1976. I know my sister and I are on it but I'm not sure I should
attempt to play it. I think we're singing "You Light Up My Life." :)
Maybe I should burn it ;)

kaboomie
.

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