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

[Milan P Milovanovic]

How about dictaphone with record alike magnetic discs (pictures shown here):

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http://images.kupujemprodajem.com/photos/oglasi/1/31/33531/big-33531_DSCN3629-4.jpg
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Daley" <mikedaley at gmail.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 9:38 PM
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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