The Premature Death of Physical Media and the Cult Home Video Labels Keeping It Alive

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

There can't be that many houses where the main TV has a SCART socket and where someone would want to watch a brand-new film with impressive visuals and immersive sound on a small screen with stereo speakers.

You can easily buy extensions so a modern tv can have a SCART socket.

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I currently have two hi-fi devices that can play cassettes. The fact they also play cd's means they never do though.

I used to love playing my mix tapes in my cars prior to this one. Comp cd's sadly just aren't the same and neither are 'playlists' as a mix tape is specifically created not thrown together by AI to tell me what i'm supposed to listen to.

You can easily make your own playlists, you don't have to rely on the 'algorithm' but I get what you mean, part of the mix tape was the hours spent with the LPs out, curating the list and recording it on to tape, only to find that last song was too long and have to come up with a new plan

Also, the amount of TDK D90 tapes I had with 2 albums on, one on each side when I borrowed them off friends during school! The good old days. I'm not buying a contemporary album on tape these days though

[peter alex]

hmv are selling cassette players and walkmans and the cost alot more to buy now than they did in the 80s.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Justin101

Also, the amount of TDK D90 tapes I had with 2 albums on, one on each side when I borrowed them off friends during school! The good old days

"Give me 50p and a blank tape and I'll record it for you"

I made a fortune when I was at school !!

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

"Give me 50p and a blank tape and I'll record it for you"

I made a fortune when I was at school !!

You should be on The Apprentice

It was funny when an album was 50 mins and the last song was sacrificed, then many years later when you could afford to buy them all, be amazed by the unheard song, thinking Damaged, Inc for example haha

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Justin101

You should be on The Apprentice

It was funny when an album was 50 mins and the last song was sacrificed, then many years later when you could afford to buy them all, be amazed by the unheard song, thinking Damaged, Inc for example haha

It wasn't so bad when you had to jettison a song. It was worse when the album ran a few minutes less than the cassette. You'd be scrabbling around for a song, usually by another artist, to fill up the space.

Now i know what additional tracks were for on single B-sides.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

You can easily buy extensions so a modern tv can have a SCART socket.

I didn't know that, which isn't a surprise because it's not something I've ever needed or considered.

On the subject of music cassettes, before I could afford to buy albums regularly, I had a mini system with CD player and a tape deck, so used to borrow CDs from the library, record them onto tapes, and then return them.

They would be ones I would, when I was a bit older and had more disposable income, buy on CD. (The first album I bought on CD was Use Your Illusion II, receiving the first one a bit later for my 13th birthday.)

At the time, it was a great way of introducing me to albums like Appetite For Destruction, Angel Dust, Master of Puppets, and Nevermind. It was always quite challenging trying to figure out how many songs could fit on each side of a tape, whether to leave some space at the end of each side and if so, how much

[iank]

I was told they didn't do them with SCART sockets anymore a few years back.

Mind you, that was Aussieland.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by iank

I was told they didn't do them with SCART sockets anymore a few years back.

Mind you, that was Aussieland.

They don't really but like i said earlier you can buy HDMI converters which have a SCART one end and HDMI the other.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Robbie Williams latest album the Better Man soundtrack has sold a massive 21,314 cassettes this week. That's the most since 1999 and Shania Twain's Come on Over album which sold 25,684 on the tape format.