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

[Bud Black]

How about chrome cassettes? And, certainly, the Webcor wire recorder. 
 
Bud 
 
 
 
 
-------Original Message------- 
 
From: Mike Daley 
Date: 05/13/11 15:38:29 
To: 78-L Mail List 
Subject: [78-L] the 'deadest' consumer audio formats? 
 
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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