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Friday, August 20, 2010

1984



Do you remember this commercial?  What were you doing in January
 of 1984? This may have been THE last ditch attempt at promoting
cassette tapes.  A well-kept LP always sounded better than a brand
new cassette to me. And CDs had been around for a few years
already. Remember the 8-track?  And  shoving a matchbook in the
player to keep it from wobbling?

6 comments:

  1. What I remember ... "Is it live, or is it Memorex?" And the ad in which the tape recording was so true to the original that it could shatter the wine glass the same way as the opera singer could in person.

    Verification word: nonfight. Is this some sort of advocacy for civility on the Internet?

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  2. Yeah, I still play my old cassettes. It was easy to tape anything from the radio.

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  3. My first reaction was like Carol Anne's - Memorex. I still have a few cassettes which are not available on DVD. I have deeply regretted letting go of my LPs though. Wow, what a loss. Many were never made available on DVD as expected, and none ever sounded as good as they did on vinyl. Never got into 8 tracks, happy to say.

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  4. My kid brother just sold his collection of LPs -- got a lot of money on it. On the other hand, my dad got a turntable that will allow him to make mp3 files of all of his LPs -- he has a lot of offbeat ones that are most definitely not available either on CD or online; for example, he has a lot of records from the Musical Heritage Society. It's a tedious process, in that he has to play each record in order to transfer it, but it's a way to save the music he has.

    Pat and I also have a huge collection of vinyl -- if we had money, we would consider getting a similar device.

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  5. Carole - If I still had LPs and the money, I'd get a turntable and just listen to the LPs again - forget the mp3 files. There is sort of a movement toward that in Japan, perhaps elsewhere. The LPs just sound better than digital.

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  6. I actually do still have a turntable, and even a spare stylus for it. On occasion, I've pulled out some of my favorite vinyl to play for the offspring. For a technophile, he's amazingly interested in what he must surely consider old fogy music.

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