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Yeah, dating myself..
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What? This is one of the coolest? This is one of the most unique? Or this is one of 'them'? ]]>Jul 13th 2010 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/
if you don't get it, its not worth explaining...]]>Jul 13th 2010 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/
I miss the feel of Vinyl. I'm not that old, but 'purist' DJs still rock 12"]]>Jul 13th 2010 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 6:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/
I was just thinking the same thing. I have a handful of cassettes that I would love to convert to digital.]]>Jul 13th 2010 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Or auto reverse?]]>Jul 13th 2010 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Skip-to-next-song!]]>Jul 13th 2010 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Technically-speaking, ALL cassettes were metal, although the "metal" tapes you are referring to had the polyester plastic film covered with Metafine (3M trademarked name), instead of the usual compounds, such as gamma ferric oxide, chromium dioxide, magnetite, and other such materials. In most instances, the only thing that made metal cassettes "special" was that they were housed in metal casings, instead of the usual plastic casings.]]>Jul 13th 2010 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/
That was so groundbreaking when dual cassette decks came out with high speed dubbing and full logic controls!]]>Jul 14th 2010 12:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/
Your thrift sense is tingling?]]>Jul 13th 2010 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/
If that isnt proof that cassette players are nothing but a trend, i dont know what is]]>Jul 13th 2010 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/a stationary laptop... as opposed to a moving one?]]>Jul 13th 2010 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/hahahaha]]>Jul 13th 2010 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/]]>Jul 13th 2010 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/
Garbage in, garbage out.]]>Jul 13th 2010 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/
Some tapes actually sound okay. Not good, but you know, OK. Good players easily suppress the hiss... and if it was a metal tape, you might even get to keep a few of the high frequencies...

Basically, you need to lower quality standards a lot, but when comparing 'tape version of music' vs 'not having the music', at least for genres where subtle details aren't critical, the tape version might be worth having.

I still have a couple small piles of cassettes and although I can't say I play them very often, it does happen occasionally. Sounds crap but (in some cases) the music's good, plus I get nostalgia value from listening to stuff I got 20 years ago... that's enough.

Kind of like how low-bitrate YouTube has awful sound quality (is it as awful as tape? maybe not), but it's still a good enough way to show people music.

Incidentally the design of this device is pretty nice. If it actually was 1994 I'd totally get one to replace my Aiwa.]]>Jul 13th 2010 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/
But back on topic, I just remember how the walkmans in the late 80s and early 90s, the ones from Japan were so damn thin and managed to have features like recording, equalizer and auto reverse. Plus they were built from metal, not plastic. The North American models sucked.]]>Jul 13th 2010 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/
I do need one of these though. I got the ION VHS-usb machine. I believe the same company makes the cassette-usb I saw on amazon.

]]>Jul 13th 2010 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/
Really??]]>Jul 13th 2010 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 7:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 7:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/Jul 13th 2010 7:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/13/tec-hideoto-portable-cassette-player-time-travels-from-1994-get/I have like 6 boxes of mix tapes from the 80's and early 90's
With some early hip hop and deep house.

Deep house music B4 the shit went to Europe and the mainstream and turned into noise.

Acid House - Hip House - Deep house - Chicago - Tribal house: So many styles to mention.

Sample the good ish. Soulful:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFuujExs03A]]>Jul 13th 2010 9:00PM