Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 18:54:25 -0500 From: "Walt Kienzle" <wkienzlenopsam.com> Subject: Re: What happened to AS2 & AS3?
> Despite the ignorant efforts of > car manufacturers and the recording industry to replace them with MDs, > cassettes won't die soon, for they are a cheap, compact means of storing > music. Which car manufacturers are are trying to replace anything with MiniDiscs? I can't find it as being available in any car model that I am looking at. While I agree that cassetes won't die soon, I find MD's less expensive, more compact and much more durable than cassettes. I started switching to minidisc after having several cassettes break in my car deck when I wanted to listen to something. I will admit that the cassettes I was using were old, but they didn't have nearly the one million record/play cycles that MDs are rated for. Three MDs take up less space than one cassette, and they can hold up to 7 1/2 hours of material (mono). Even in stereo, the 3 1/4 hours of playing time is 50% more than what the longest cassette can hold....and with MD you don't have to wait 10 minutes fast forwarding if the part you want to hear is at the end of the tape. Cassettes will be around for awhile; but then again I still have some LPs around too! Walt Kienzle <saabsternopsameja.com> wrote in message news:8r2kqs$6rh$1nopsam1.deja.com... > Aren't cassettes underrated these days? If you can stand the hiss the > sound isn't bad, but best of all they're smaller than cds and can be > dropped, scratched, stepped on, and still play like new. CDs in the > cabin are a nuisance--bulky, awkward. That's why I fitted my car with a > Clarion cassette deck with a CD Changer Control. Just load it up with 10 > CDs once a week, and that, coupled with my collection of tapes in the > cubbyhole beneath the ashtray, provides a maximum of musical variety. > Cassette tapes have been around for nearly 40 years, 15 of which have > been during the mass-marketing of CDs. Despite the ignorant efforts of > car manufacturers and the recording industry to replace them with MDs, > cassettes won't die soon, for they are a cheap, compact means of storing > music. > > Saabster > 85 900 8v > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Before you buy.
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