[peel] Is it sad...?

[RobF]

This reminds me that when portable mp3 players first came on the market,
the first one I ever bought was shaped as a cassette and it actually played
by putting it into the tape player of my car!

It had 256mb of memory so barely got 2 albums on it, I wish I'd lept it, it
was a real technological abomination


On 31 January 2014 15:01, stephen phythian <
theallnewadventuresofspp@...> wrote:

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> It's not sad at all. I know of people who will only watch the recent 'Top
> of the Pops' repeats on old CRT televisions because they just don't feel
> right on modern flat screen digitals, it's all personal taste. For me,
> there's enough tape hiss and AM crackle in the old shows to remind me of
> the source material and the advantages of being able to carry (and share)
> on an ipod  more shows than you could ever resonably fit onto tape, far
> outweigh the aesthetics of having them on cassette. But you must do what
> you feel is right of course...
> Stephen
>   *From:* "ukbongo@..." <ukbongo@...>
> *To:* peel@yahoogroups.com
> *Sent:* Friday, 31 January 2014, 14:30
> *Subject:* [peel] Is it sad...?
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>  Before I found this wonderful group, I relied on my own, rather
> haphazard, collection of Peel on cassette tape. I tend to associate Uncle
> John with that venerable format and so, I have to admit, feel slightly at
> odds with a hard disc full of digital file shows (grateful though I am, of
> course). My pseudo confession is that I am contemplating transferring the
> entire Peel archive back to cassette where I'm sure it will sound 'right',
> having passed through the analogue filter. I even have a Nakamichi Dragon
> and a heap of blank tapes at the ready. Reason for my post? Just wondered
> if anyone else had already undertaken this Herculean, although perfectly
> reasonable, task and if they might have regretted starting the might feat
> at all? Paul
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