12 Aug 2004 | Brad Hurley said...

This poor guy's going to feel like he's been slashdotted now that David Pogue linked to his site in his weekly Circuits e-mail from the NY Times. I wonder if .Mac still blocks access to sites after they get too much traffic?

It's funny, I've been slowly converting the best music from my several hundred cassettes into digital format; my plan was to get rid of the cassette collection after I was done converting them but I can't seem to bring myself to do it. They do last a long time, so now I consider them my tape backup system. I still have cassettes that my sister made for me in the late 1970s and they sound as good as new.

12 Aug 2004 | Unearthed Ruminator said...

Of course, this guy failed to take into account that you need something to play the cassette tape in (whereas the iPod is the player as well as the media).

Wouldn't a more fair comparison be to compare an old walkman to the iPod?

12 Aug 2004 | Darrel said...

He forgot the biggest plus for the cassette...that plasticky, new-cassette smell...ah...memories!...

12 Aug 2004 | Don Schenck said...

... and the tape getting eaten by your player ... and the tape jamming ... and dropping the 23 tapes you're trying to carry to your Pinto ...

12 Aug 2004 | Darrel said...

...and the worst one...where the tape gets stretched a bit so the next time you listen to it you get that subtle, but nasty pitch-shift in a middle of a song. Eww.

12 Aug 2004 | Don Schenck said...

No ... the whole owning a Pinto thing is what's worst. :-)

Or how about when you repair a torn tape and accidently get it twisted. Halfway through Electric Light Orchestra's "Turn To Stone", it starts playing backwards. ARGH!

12 Aug 2004 | indi said...

next I'd like to see a comparison between the newest plasma TVs and drive-in movies

30 Jan 2005 | compatelius said...

bocigalingus must be something funny.