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Article: Electrical giant says the days of cassette tapes numbered
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- Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK)
- Article date:
- May 8, 2007
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The days of the cassette tape are doomed, it was predicted
yesterday, after a major retailer announced it was pressing the eject
button on sales.
Currys, with over 500 stores in the UK, said existing stocks of
blank cassette tapes would be sold but not replenished.
The move comes in the face of the runaway success of digital music
formats such as the iPod and the MP3 player.
Currys has also said it anticipates that cassette decks, which are
today installed in less than 5% of audio equipment stocked by the
retailer, will disappear from the range entirely within 18 months.
The announcement sounds the death knell for the lovingly-made
compilation cassette tape, often used as a gift to impress ...