[78-L] the 'deadest' consumer audio formats?

[Mike Daley]

If I had to guess, the most "obsolete" (keeping in mind that this is an
arguable term) consumer audio formats (in order) would be:

reel-to-reel tape (bonus points for quadrophonic)
8-track
cassettes
78s
vinyl 45s
vinyl LPs
CDs

I'm sure I left out a few...but yes, I would place 78s as "less dead" than
cassettes. I'm judging this partly on the ready availability of working
machines to play these formats. I wouldn't even put DATs and minidiscs in
the running - I never saw them find much of a foothold at all in the
consumer market.

Mike

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 3:27 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> You'd be surprised..
>
> dl
>
> On 5/13/2011 3:17 PM, Mike Daley wrote:
> > People still use cassettes?
> >
> > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Julian Vein<julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Dave at Audio Tech Transfer wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Most customers want to know up front what the cost will be, thus the
> set
> >>> price per tape or record.   It's easy and understandable for the
> >> customer,
> >>> who more often than not doesn't know whether their home videotapes run
> 15
> >>> minutes or 2 hours?  It's painful doing a big stack of 2 hour tapes....
> >> but
> >>> the pile of 10-15 minute tapes in the next job make up for it.  Open
> reel
> >>> audio tape and some VHS can be impossible to predict due to
> >> record/playback
> >>> speed used, let the customer know that upfront.
> >>
> >>> Dave Rose
> >>> Audio Tech Transfer
> >> ===============
> >> The worst type of friend (sic) is the one who has some LPs but nothing
> >> to play them on. So they ask me if they give me some cassettes could
> >> they transfer them.
> >>
> >> Not that easy. The first side of the LP is OK, but you can't be sure how
> >> long side two is going to be, so you can't be sure if the tape is going
> >> to run out. So you stand around biting your nails, waiting for the LP to
> >> finish. Of course, it overruns and a track is only part-recorded. So you
> >> have to wind the tape back to the last complete track, then record over
> >> the incomplete track with a silent recording to erase it.
> >>
> >> Then you turn over the tape and finish recording the rest of the LP.
> >> Then it starts again...
> >>
> >> I've also been asked to transfer CDs to cassette too! If the CD has
> >> playing times listed, you can make an educated guess how much you can
> >> get on one side of a tape.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>       Julian Vein
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