Pat Farrell wrote: > The CD was not aimed at the LP, but the cassette. That it nearly killed > the LP was not all that important. Amazing to me is that vinyl now has a > growing market. > I don't get this. Surely, the main difference between LP and cassette was the recording capability of the latter? To replace the compact cassette Sony created the mini disk ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_disk ) and Philips (who created the CD together with Sony) came up with the (horrible) Digital Compact Cassette ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette ). So the inventors apparently hadn't noticed that their CD was aimed at the cassette. Sure, the CD was much more portable than the LP, but it wouldn't be recordable for a long time, which is rather important for some people ;)
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