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- From: kmr4@po.CWRU.edu (Keith M. Ryan)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: The end of cassettes, was...Re: So? Anyone have dcc yet?
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:12:19 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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- In article <7490248@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> myers@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Myers) writes:
- >> Bottom line is that there are tens of millions of cassette decks,
- >> auto cassette players, toys, commercial recorders for courts, etc
- >> in existence and they are certainly not going away in two years, nor
- >> is the demand for the tapes (both blank and pre-recorded.) Cassette,
- >> tapes have been around for many years and they will continue to be
- >> in the future.
- >>
- >>
- >
- >Bill, I agree with your basic position here, but a word of caution:
- >IF DAT or DCC catches on in a big way, it is not beyond possibility that
- >the conventional Compact Cassette could vanish in a relatively short time.
- >For example, how many 8-track systems or cartridges do you see sold these
- >days? If, say, DCC offers such a clear advantage over today's cassette
- >*in the mind of the consumer*, then the cassette could quickly become a
- >dinosaur, regardless of its true merit.
-
- I would doubt that. Not many will pay the extra money to buy a
- portable DAT or DCC, when they can spend $30 to get a protable cassette
- player. When the compact cassette came out, it was similar in price to the
- 8-tracks, and not that many people owned 8-tracks as those who own tape
- decks today.
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