Originally Posted By: jford
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Then we had the high frequency starved cassette tape


Cassettes could have been a lot better had they gone to a speed of 3 3/4 ips, rather than 1 7/8 ips.

Several vendors had 90-minute, 100-minute, and 110-minute blank cassettes, so the commercial industry could have easily created 45-minute, 50-minute, and 55-minute recordings at 3 3/4 ips.

Alas, water under the bridge.


Tascam Portastudios proved that. Designed to run at a faster speed and record in one direction only. Good quality from VHS Tapes used in quality stereo video recorders for archiving too.


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