Well, I don't think this should really surprise anyone too much. Between CD's and now MP3's (as well as competing formats), I don't know any folks still using the cassette standard. And I don't miss that "white noise" hiss that was often present.
Just as the Vinyl Record has pretty much died off in the mid 90's, the end of the cassette tape is coming close. So far cassette tapes have been in use since their perfection by Philips in the 1960's and reached their peak in 1989 in the UK, selling 83 million tapes in the UK alone. Now this has fallen to just 0.9 million tapes sold last year. When the cassette tape was created, Philips decided not to charge royalties for it in order to ensure it quickly became accepted. Before the tape, reel-to-reel recorders and vinyl recording booths dominated the market.
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