Article: Cassettes survive against all odds

Article: Why tapes had to be wound up; MIRROR MUSIC CRITIC GAVIN MARTIN MOURNS THE DEMISE OF THE HUMBLE MUSIC CASSETTE.(Features)
The Mirror (London, England);  January 16, 2004 ;     700+ words ......manufacturing is completely erased. The only cassettes still selling well are audio books...is killing music lie plastered on cassettes by the record industry, the cassette...the Erase button that longer-play cassettes were thin and snapped with repeated...

Article: Music cassettes fast-forwarding to oblivion
The Boston Globe;  February 7, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Remember when music cassettes were the wave of the future? No more...compact discs clog the aisles, while cassettes tend to be hidden away in a corner...plunge to 8 percent of its business. "Cassettes are becoming obsolete because the...

Article: Music cassette's days appear garbled Sales of tapes fading as CDs are booming
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  January 2, 1997 ;     611 words ......from 1995. That's 30 million fewer cassettes going into consumers' tape decks...disc sales, which in 1992 outpaced cassettes for the first time, are still growing...look, their cozy little cases. But cassettes? Hey, stifle your giggles. Yes, they'...

Article: Is it cassette, compact disc or MP3?
Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......I lost or gained four years. The cassettes in my Walkman, on the other hand...We're now buying 80 percent CDs over cassettes," Marge Clark, the purchaser, confirmed...offered. "Well, if the clientele want cassettes, we'll buy them." I made a note to...

Article: Struggling cassettes aren't singing their death song yet.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  December 31, 1996 ;     700+ words ......from 1995. That's 30 million fewer cassettes going into consumers' tape decks...discs sales, which in 1992 outpaced cassettes for the first time, are still growing...look, their cozy little cases. But cassettes? Hey, stifle your giggles. Yes, they'...

Article: Life of audio cassettes may be recording its final moments
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  June 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Life of audio cassettes may be recording its final moments By...technology. "A whole generation grew up with cassettes, but now a new generation is being brought...company executive Des Power noted how "cassettes are in for a rough time" and said afterward...

Article: Sight and sound: The persistent cassette
Opera News;  February 8, 1997 ;     700+ words ......the age of thirtysomething, tape cassettes jauntily survive, nay thrive, as the most popular home recording format. Cassettes retain favor not merely among Walkmen...taping music off the air. Technically, cassettes may seem like relics -- analog holdovers...

Article: Oracle Packaging begins revolutionary video cassette production in Toldeo plant
Toledo Business Journal;  November 1, 1998 ;     544 words ......favor of producing the new model VHS cassettes, IntellishellTM, at its Toledo facility...and marketing of the Intellishell cassettes. "We had just done the test marketing...confident that the market for video cassettes will remain strong or at least another...

Article: German Inventor Develops Cassette Opening, Closing Apparatus
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 24, 2007 ;     216 words ......amp; Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a cassette, a control device, an automatic teller and a method for opening and/or closing such a cassette.Since the cassette can be opened and/or closed contactlessly by means of a radio link between the cassette and a control device, it is possible ...

Article: Cassette tapes linger long after their reported demise\
Post-Tribune (IN);  August 5, 2007 ;     579 words ......capital will make about 22 million cassettes a year for each of the next several...s a far cry from the 175 million cassettes Lenco made in 1995 at the height...for years," Chapelle said. Lenco's cassettes include everything but the magnetic...

Article: Please don't hiss this ode to cassette tapes
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......from my own youth. I used to love cassettes. Not the prerecorded kind, whose...was size. I'm talking about blank cassettes. Before iPods, MP3s, MySpace, playlists and what-have-you, cassettes were the way we shared music with...

Article: Cassettes on a fast forward to extinction.
The Daily Mail (London, England);  August 9, 2001 ;     442 words ......The future is not at all bright for cassettes,' said Sarah Roberts, communications...that people don't want to buy it. 'Cassettes are not particularly enduring, they...which increased in the last quarter, cassettes would almost certainly vanish altogether...

Article: Cassette tapes keep loyal following
Oakland Tribune;  August 6, 2007 ;     700+ words ......capital will make about 22 million cassettes a year for each of the next several...s a far cry from the 175 million cassettes Lenco made in 1995 at the height...for years," Chapelle said. Lenco's cassettes include everything but the magnetic...

Article: Cassettes face eject button as sales plummet.
The Evening Standard (London, England);  January 15, 2004 ;     453 words ......entire shiny radius?). The cassette was doomed to go the way...toppled both vinyl and the cassette as the main format for recorded...figures, said: The market for cassettes has fallen away dramatically...brought more woe for the cassette with the development of technology...for HMV - which still ...