If you’ve just time-travelled in from 1992, with only your collection of Right Said Fred and Pet Shop Boys cassettes and a pair of those baggy MC Hammer pants, you’re gonna have a bad time very soon – Sony has confirmed that it will cease production of its cassette player/recorder ranges sometime early next year. Your pants are another problem altogether.
From January 2013, Sony’s TCM-410, TCM-400, and TCM-450 portable cassette tape player/recorders will be permanently discontinued. You might say the tape has totally run out on them, but probably only if you’re old enough to remember that sort of stuff.
I’d say it’s the end of an era, but I think I’d be about 10 years too late for that even. Honestly, I’m amazed they’re still making these things at all. Even CDs have become increasingly irrelevant for a generation that simply downloads music. Over wireless internet. While browsing their Xbox cloud saves on their tablets in the middle of a stereoscopic 3D movie theatre. In their own homes. Holy crap, it’s the future already.
Source: Gizmodo
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“Your pants are another problem altogether.” Absolute genius.