Cassette Tapes are still being Made & Sold in USA

[Rodney Bourke]

The humble cassette Tape, came out in 1963 by Phillips in Belgium. The Compact Cassette was a good way to record sound for Super 8 Filmmakers.
When I started seriously Shooting Super 8 Kodachrome in the 1990's it cost around $16 a roll of Silent or around $29 for Sound, so Buying a Blank 90 min Cassette for around $2 was a good option. Some Super 8 Projectors had built in Cassette Players like Nizo.
Amazingly Cassettes are still being made, Blank or Pre-recorded by National Audio Company, USA.

https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...+Audio+Company

[Ken Finch]

I still have many of these and reorders, even a reel to reel recorder that still works!! Also 78 rpm records and a deck to play them on. Shows how old I am!! Sadly anything we buy today is designed to break down as soon as the guarantee runs out and is not repairable or is out of date due to the changes in format etc. What a waste!! Ken Finch.

[Brian Fretwell]

Yes things like R-DAT (rotary digital audio tape) cassettes and minidiscs are short lived formats that will give trouble soon.

[Mathew James]

Cassettes are cool. Depending on the type and quality, some of mine have lasted over 20 years...but some cassettes, the little felt pieces(pressure pad) disintegrates but thankfully is an easy fix! You can do this to fix 8 tracks as well.
People are still duplicating en masse, and still around: https://www.duplication.ca/index-tape.htm

[Osi Osgood]

I was totally into rock music as a kid, (well, still am) and I found out about backward masking, (for those who don't know what that is, it is simply taking audio and reversing it and having it recorded with regular forward audio, I've done it iny own music, just for fun). I found out that if I opened the cassettes, it was easy to reverse the audio and hear the "messages"!

[Graham Ritchie]

My first one was bought way back in 1972, although the player gave up years ago, I won't part with it as its been everywhere with me over the last 48 years

Regarding the cassette itself, I have been surprised that many have lasted this long and still play fine. This one being a example that was also bought also in 1972, an interesting side note, to this day I have never come across a CD of this title.



The player no longer works..

The cassette that came with it, still does


I bought this "Akai" player cheap a few years ago, after changing the belt it works well.



This tape has had a lot of use over the last 48 years and still runs and sounds fine

[Osi Osgood]

They make cassette players that plug right into your PC so you make mp3 files of your precious tapes. From what I have observed, the earlier cassettes had better, shall we say, stronger tape.

[Brian Fretwell]

The same with VHS tapes even the actual cassette body got weaker. I think they both economised in the the thickness of both the tape and the oxide layer in later years and short tapes used the thinner version developed for longer ones.

Anyone remember those TDK C180 tapes? You could actually see through them and they advised you not to rewind or fast forward as it would stretch the tape!!

[Rodney Bourke]

Cassettes are very much Alive acordingly to Jarratt New, he mentions another Company making New Blank Chrome Cassettes called Tapeline in UK, and Brand New Music still released on Tape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVEraHaefBc

[Rodney Bourke]

Here is a Video Camera from Fisher-Price the PXL2000 it took Cassette tapes for Video see ebay

https://www.ebay.com/itm/17490948075...kAAOSwmRNgpJPy

[Rodney Bourke]

A UK BBC Tomorrow World 1982 story, on a Digital Music Cassette,
which finally came out by Philips 10 years later, the Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) in 1992 too late,
as Sony had the Mini Disc (MD).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPD1IKC3myA