RIP cassette tapes
May 9th, 2007 by Koldo Barroso
I must be one of the few people who refuses to bury the analog technology forever. I still use a cassette recorder to do the phone interviews for The Marquee Club web site and of course I still keep a wonderful collection of music tapes from the 70’s. I have to admit, though, that I recently converted all of my own music recordings to digital, and the quailty loss in some of them was already pretty scary.
When I was ten, I used to go to school every day with a suitcase full of tapes and a tape player. I have wonderful memories of cassette tapes, but I must admit that it would have been more convenient to have an MP3 player at the time: I would have avoid some 2 kgs. of weight every day!
“The eject button on music tapes has been pressed for the last time. Currys, the biggest electronics retailer in Britain, will today announce that it is to stop selling cassette tapes - a move which sounds the death knell for the compilation tape, used by a generation of love-struck young men to woo their girlfriends.”
Seen at Telegraph.co.uk
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