telegraph.co.uk — Cassette tapes have been suffering a slow decline over the past 15 years as first compact discs, and more recently music downloading, took hold. But it is estimated that there are still as many as 500 million tapes in circulation, languishing at the back of bookshelves, or in the side doors of cars.
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laterallateralMay 8, 2007
Great book about that: Thurston Moore's "Mixtape"See "The Breakup Mix", "The Roadtrip Mix"Very entertaining book.
gryffyddMay 8, 2007
Actually, the jump from DVD to Blu-Ray/HDDVD is much smaller than the one from VHS to DVD, and that's the problem. VHS >> DVD was a huge, huge improvement in viewing experience in every way--no rewinding, vastly better audio and video etc. DVD >> HDVD/Blue-Ray gets you better picture, but only if you have a TV that can handle it, and better audio, but only if you've got the system to handle it.
ccyr85May 8, 2007
Chuck Klosterman also has a good rant about that in Sex, Drugs, and Coco Puffs
vincenoirMay 8, 2007
@popfrogs@scottcindyOK... go ahead. Enlighten me. What's wrong or "racist" (I wasn't aware being from the southern U.S. was a race) about the term cracker. If you can give me some good reasoning for why I shouldn't be using it, I will stop. I'm an open minded and non-bigoted guy. Also, what term is appropriate to use when speaking of southern U.S. citizens who are opposed to northern beliefs, education, intellect and liberal policies? I need something to describe that group of people (red staters doesn't work as there are some up north). I realize that not all southerners are like that as I stated originally. However, I'd like to be able to address the group of people I speak of who are willful in their ignorance and don't want to open their minds to other ways of thinking and who happen to be from the south. (There are some up north, but their number isn't as big). So go ahead and tell me why cracker is bad and what a good replacement is.
dumbledoritoMay 8, 2007
Wow. How was what I said stereotypical? I heard an interview with Garth Brooks and other country music stars, and they were being asked why they still released songs on cassettes, and THEY were the ones saying many of their fans still have cassette decks in their trucks and cars.I wasn't trying to perpetuate any stereotypes, you drunken chaw-stuffing inbred redneck hicks. :)
idonthackMay 8, 2007
Most of my music is in OGG and FLAC. An MP3 player would be lol useless.
idonthackMay 8, 2007
@FanjI always listen to music in albums. IMO each album is a complete work of art, and if you only listen to part of it you are only getting part of the message the artist meant to convey.
jimmissMay 9, 2007
"Cracker (pejorative), an abusive or slang term for a white person." - Wikipedia
ottoMay 10, 2007
@jawbreaker4fs: The fact that it's analog makes no difference whatsoever. It doesn't have infinite resolution. You're dragging a physical needle down that groove, and the physical needle not only has a width, but it has to move through physical space at the same frequency of the sound it's trying to reproduce.Also, the fact that digital audio is digitized into discrete time-based chunks doesn't make any difference either. I refer you to the works of Nyquist and Shannon.Vinyl does *not* capture the sound better. It introduces distortion... a lot of it, in fact. The fact that the particular type of distortion happens to be one that sounds pretty good to people is beside the point. A CD recreates a far more accurate signal than any vinyl ever, ever could, and this is just a simple fact. Don't be fooled by the analog/digital myth.