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Posted by NunYa Bidness on 12/10/05 16:15
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 21:28:02 -0500, "SBFan2000"
<weareborgNOSP#M@wcnet.org> Gave us:
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>> Never said it did. All I said was CD's killed LP's and Cassettes.
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>But thats not quite true, stores still sell cassettes, both prerecorded
>(rare but out there) and blanks. CD sure pacified cassette but it didn't
>totally kill it. Now 8-track would be dead, can't buy prerecorded or blanks
>outside a garage sale, no ones makes them to my knowledge. Cassette is
>still made/sold by several manufactures including Memorex.
The reason 8-track died is because it is a failed mechanism. Any
time there is a bona fide hardware failure, a particular format will
die very quickly. No other format killed it. It just had too many
physical functional problems.
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>Predict the same thing for VHS although studios will stop releasing VHS
>editions, which most have started.
VHS will still be around a while, just typically for home recording,
and OTA recording.
> But cheap documentarys, exercise videos,
>and ect. prerecorded vhs will remain available for a time, and blanks will
>be sold for some time to come.
You're a real sage.
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