DVDs and BluRay should definitely be much more mainstream. They can save you tons of money on cloud storage. I keep hundreds of GB of old video lectures series, books and more on DVDs and plan to move to a Bluray setup soon.
Cassette tapes are making a comeback?
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Re: Cassette tapes are making a comeback?
#272Earlier quoted context omitted.
I grew up in the 80s, and was a prolific user of both video tapes (mostly VHS) and cassette tapes. I can't recall ever having a tape get eaten by any deck, either video or audio. Not saying it never happens, but if it was common I absolutely would have encountered it many times over.
> I can't recall ever having a tape get eaten by any deck ... if it was common I absolutely would have encountered it many times over. Common enough that you know the slang for it, despite it not happening to you.
Touché
Re: Cassette tapes are making a comeback?
#273Vinyl resurging, I can understand. But cassette tapes were always so fragile. I can't count how many got twisted up in the player and lost forever. Their only redeeming quality was the mix tape.
> Vinyl resurging, I can understand. But cassette tapes...their only redeeming quality was the mix tape their ONLY redeeming quality? mix or not mix, did you ever try to record a vinyl?
Yeah, I used to have a habit of buying a blank cassette with two vinyl albums each weekend after I got paid so I could listen to said albums in my car. I'd still rock the records at home though.