Andrew Hobgood wrote:
>
> > Tape cassettes are virtually dead any more. Most of my younger friends
> > don't have a single tape playing device. The market is very narrow if
>
> Ever look at a car? Most cars (in the US, anyway) have tape decks, and
> *only* tape decks. Car CD players are still prohibitively expensive,
> and I know a number of folks who keep many tapes to listen to in the
> car. Also, If you go to any major music store (Tower Records, Record Town,
> etc.) you *will* find huge selections of cassettes. If the market isn't
> there, they wouldn't have a selection that big.
Maybe smaller cities are more technologically ahead?
Most newer cars are ordered with factory CD players any more from what
I've seen. Even my old 1990 Pontiac has a factory CD player. Most new
GM cars have a combination CD/tape player in a double-DIN slot. Every
single one of my friends and both my sisters yanked out their factory
tape players and put in aftermarket CD players a long time ago. That
seems to be the case with almost everyone I've met that are in Sony's
prime target age group for MD marketing.
No such thing as either Tower Records or Record Town around here. Just
Hastings, Best Buy, Circuit City, and what use to be Blockbuster Music
is now Wharehouse music or some such thing. None of them have many
prerecorded cassettes anymore.
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Shawn Lin
http://www2.cybercities.com/g/gmwbodycars/
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