"Churchill, Guy" wrote:
>
> When was the last time someone on this m-list purchased
> a Cassette walkman ? Are they still very popular ?
More popular than I'd like. I notice many minisystems and boomboxes
still have that archaic medium.
> They are still on the shelves but I don't know anyone
> who has bought one in the last 3 years. Perhaps
> parents still buy them for their kids? <shrug>
Me neither.
[snip]
> Never looked at a tape walkman again.
I haven't looked at anything that plays cassettes again.
I have loaned out, sold, donated, and given away all my cassette
equipment.
MD HAS replaced cassette in all my audio systems. I don't have cassette
in my car, I don't have it in my house, I don't have it at all. :)
However, I can play MD (and CD) everywhere I go.
However, what I feel is much more archaic than cassette is VHS. I
absolutely can't stand VHS' size, bulk, and inconvenience. Not to
mention the physical complexity which leads to reliability problems (I
think most people have experienced a VCR chewing up a tape at least
once). After using DVD, it makes one wonder how VHS survived so long.
I wish DVD were a recordable+rewriteable media from the beginning
though, like MD is. I don't know what DVD-R or DVD-RW is going to be
like since I can't afford it, but I feel as though it could end up being
a "hack" like CD-R/RW is.
Shawn
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