Thoughts on Retro VHS Packaging?

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Originally Posted by crissrudd4554

Apparently audio cassettes are making somewhat of a comeback. That can’t strictly be because of Nostalgia only.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ins...ck-in-business

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovAG...ature=youtu.be

Its nostalgia, being "hip" by being different, and cheap used prices that started the fad, but it will be a short-lived one. The quality of the new tapes and players being sold are worse than that of when cassette was at its peak, and even at its peak it sounded much worse than vinyl/CD. Unlike vinyl there is basically zero benefit of cassette over CD/MP3.

Cassette got popular because it was portable for the car, cheap, durable and recordable. Sound quality never really played a large role in why it was popular.

Cassette is the worst of all worlds given our other choices of CD/MP3/Vinyl
*Worse sound quality than CD/Vinyl/MP3
*Doesn't have the cool art of vinyl due to its small size, even smaller art than CD (this is an area where vinyl easily beats everything)
*Doesn't have the ability to quickly select tracks like CD/MP3, must fast forward and rewind etc.
*Not as portable as CD (can put 25 CDs in a wallet that takes up just a little more space than ~2 cassettes) or MP3 (obviously)
*Cassettes one big advantage of the "mix tape" factor is easly obsoleted by MP3 playlists and CD-Rs, not to mention streaming services that make automatic "mix tapes"