In 1991, 1.5m pirated Congolese cassettes were seized in nearby Togo in a single bust.
The video recorder brought two new streams of income: from renting and selling video cassettes.
Mechanical, electrical services - the wires and piping - came in cassettes that were just slotted into place.
The truck is designed with battery cassettes in the floor of the vehicle between the frame rails and axles.
It soon found that the service was such a hit that it was cannibalising sales of traditional cassettes and cds.
According to Gabriel Shabani, a former record producer, a hit album might sell 20, 000 cassettes in Kinshasa, a city of 4m.
Cassettes and their random manglings at the hands of devious tape players seemed to be facts of life a generation ago.
As more manufacturers adopt the technology, it will make trading cartridges containing songs as easy as trading cassettes or CDs is today.
The team then enlisted the help of yeast cells to link the cassettes in the correct order to produce the finished genomes.
The band has recovered those old tapes, and plays as a tribute band to an artist whose music never made it past living-room cassettes.
This is possible using libraries in which special robots load cassettes into tape drives when required, but a holographic disc would be much quicker.
Of course this is what every Walkman user did, and before long, there were warning stickers on records and cassettes, stating: HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC!
It shows that in 2000 75% of stored information was in an analogue format such as video cassettes, but that by 2007, 94% of it was digital.
Satellite and conventional over-the-air broadcasting will remain the primary high-def program sources until cable operators decide to carry high-def content and Hollywood delivers prerecorded HD cassettes or discs.
Cassettes have long been considered obsolete, but the objects have had a cultural resurgence in recent years as independent musicians and labels have returned to the format in droves.
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Holtzman returned to California with a suitcase full of cassettes of this unique, Farfisa-organ-driven psychedelic-rock sound that was forged during the Vietnam War, when American radio influenced traditional Cambodian styles.
It's understandable why VCRs were rectangular (cassettes were rectangular).
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After VHS cassettes made it easier for consumers to have their own video libraries, DVDs allowed them to save even more space in their shelves, with greater picture and sound quality, as well as longevity.
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Since then Railroad Earth had been a consistent draw at rock clubs, theaters, and bluegrass festivals, earning a devoted following of so-called hoboes who trailed the band from town to town and trade cassettes of their live shows.
Studios benefit from these deals as they no longer have to pay to produce cassettes and discs themselves, and nor will they have to work out what to do with warehouses full of unwanted tapes when demand falls.
Lee won back his freedom only after pleading guilty to a single felony count of mishandling national-defense information, which means he downloaded the equivalent of 400, 000 pages of classified data about the U.S. nuclear-weapons program onto an unsecured computer system and then transferred them to high-volume cassettes.
Like the HC1, the HC3 records up to 1080i onto standard mini-DV cassettes in HDV format, but it ups the ante with stills up to four megapixels (and even simultaneous widescreen 2.3 and 4:3 1.7 megapixel stills while shooting video), although it has a lower gross pixel count, no manual focus ring, and we've heard grumblings of a "noisier" picture.
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