Plutonius X Yeah its kind of sad, load of people at my school thought the TV was from the 80s, I had a good laugh explaining to them the TV is from 1928, not even close.
Plutonius X Those kids were all born after 2000. I stopped buying prerecorded cassettes in the late 80s and stopped listening to them around 1998 Cassettes were great for dubbing but the prerecorded ones were too expensive considering how fragile they could be.
Vendetta101films Mechanical television was first demonstrated on March 25, 1925. The concept of an all-electronic television existed on paper going back to 1922 but wasn't demonstrated until 1927 or 1928. Television signals were not available until the mid 30s in the UK. Some of the first images were designed for mechanical television and showed 32-line silhouettes of people reading stories.
***** No one you know buys 'em, but there's still hundreds of millions sold every year. It's going to be around for a long time, if only because it (and vinyl) are better than digital for audiophiles.
They don't remember the days headphones covered your whole ear, were held in place by a strap over the top of your head, and had large enough speakers that they sounded nice.
Jim Glenn I don't get it either. The "Kids React" video on Walkmans also featured kids similarly bemused by headphones. Either they're used to playing music through speakers or they only listen with earbuds
i would too i'm 21 and when i was little i would have my sister and brother record some songs from animes and video games and make mix tapes like mortal kombat because back then they didn't sell japanese cds to the us yet or was popular. lol nowadays i feel like the new generation are lacking creativity and overall their ipod and smart phones last only 4 hours compared to using like batteries that take a few days to recharge or buy new ones. We had more dedication to go to music stores and buy our favorite artist's cds or cassettes.
I'm 14 and I have been using cassettes ever sense I can remember and still use my Walkman. I have no idea how anyone doesn't know how to use a cassette player or even know how to open a cassette case. Are they paying them to act stupid??
+Tankey Hudson It doesn't matter how old you are, if you have NEVER seen something or NEVER been shown something there is no way they could have known about them! Just because they have never seen them that does not make them stupid! And by the same logic, that does NOT make YOU more INTELLIGENT just because you have!!! Do you know how to programme a Sinclair ZX Spectrum????? NO? well I do!! I bet you dont even know what the hell a Sinclair ZX Spectrum is do you??? So does that make you STUPID
I'm 44 and I have a vast Spotify Playlist. It's more convenient, music in demand and I don't have to buy any players. Just my phone, pc and a Bluetooth speaker. Plus I don't have to worry about storage and clutter to collect cassettes.. Just kidding. Cassette culture is great. Keep it up guys. Analog is personal and it's yours! Tangible music that you can hold 👌👌👌
Getting kids to care about cassette tapes and walkmen is a) hilarious b) helped with Ace of Base c) makes you nostalgic or d) all of the above. Check out this new show idea and let us know what you think!
you get better audio quality with certain older portable technology compare to mp3 now a days. thats really sad. for example CDs, walkman mini disc, cd players.....
I’m still using cassettes. Bought six boomboxes from eBay and now buying high quality blank cassettes and can’t wait to make my own mix tapes like I used to in the eighties.
I was always afraid to buy the whole album because most of the time I only enjoyed one or two songs from the album. At the time, (at least for me)buying the whole album was big investment :)
That's definitely where iTunes is a big plus, at least imo. Back then, the "cassingles" (don't remember using that word, btw) and CD singles were a lot nicer for me because I just wanted that one song I fell in love with on the radio, not a bunch of other songs that happened to be on a huge CD I may or may not like. And if one didn't want to deal with all that or *get* a tape or CD, or couldn't duplicate the faves for a "mix-tape" (for example, if you had a boombox with only *one* tape deck), your option was to listen to your radio on the boombox with the tape in place for that one song, then frantically hit the record/play buttons, hoping that a) you didn't cut off *too* much of the intro and/or b) you didn't get *too* much of the obnoxious DJ who just *wouldn't* stop talking over your music! Nowadays, not only can you pick and choose an album song or single here and there on iTunes and download it, but you can go through your own CDs, pick and choose the songs you listen to, and just sync it to your iPod. No DJ included. Man, kids have it good!!! ;)
"Milli ..... Vanilli... ?" Yeah, because everybody uses sensible real names these days. Don't they, Chamillionaire? That's right, isn't it, FKA Twigs? Know what I mean, Tinie Tempah? Lady Gaga? Flo Rida? Will.I.Am? Deadmau5? Milli Vanilli just sounds ludicrous, doesn't it ...erm.... Ludacris?
I was a teenager during the first half of the seventies. But I don't think of that era's tech with any fondness. The tech of yesteryear seems so antiquated now, and I wouldn't expect today's kids to even consider it. Even my musical memorabilia is digitally remastered, and I'm glad that I don't have to take films into a shop to get them processed. No audio tape, no video tape, and no film. Yesterday was yesterday, and yesterday's future suits me just fine.
***** Yup. Social media is pretty much destroying human contact. When we were kids there were no cell phones, internet or ipods. We would ride our bikes and go to each other's houses to see each other. I probably rode my bike 15+ kms a day and it was fun.
MY point is that you started your response by telling me to 'Shut the fuck up'. Every single old person of all generations has argued that elders should be respected...or is THAT an antiquated concept?
Why are people getting mad about them not knowing about cassettes? I mean do people really think they're gonna spend hundreds of dollars on cassette decks and speakers and whatnot to listen to Taylor Swift, Lil Pump whatever? Maybe they should know a little something but..... It's outdated and unreliable. Honestly, cassettes sorta suck for listening. They're good for recording and processing audio though.
1) Tape Deck or Tape Player - 2 cassette players in one chassis or a single cassette player 2) CD Player - A device that plays optical discs 3) 8 Track Player- A device that plays cartridge-based tapes 4) Boombox - A all-in-one stereo with a CD or Tape Player or Both 5) Phonograph or Record Player - A machine that plays vinyl - Vinyl - A huge CD 6) Tuner - A AM/FM Transmitter device built-in a radio or a external device 7) Reel-to-Reel Tapes - Harder than just putting a cassette into a slot - A machine used in recording studios and radio broadcast stations I grew up using tapes and most most of these things listed above. I'm 24!
What i learned from pro cassette users, want to have the best analogue sound that almost rivals the best digital sound, use metal tape based cassettes (the best around) and play them on players that support Dolby noise reduction system version S, this will remove the hissssss background noise making the sound as clean has digital.
William Henry Harrison I'm 14 I used to collect these things when I were 8 including things like black and white TV's etc.. my dad hated the collection he thought it was all worthless junk lets see that in 20 years time...
Wow u guys are lucky, my dad hates anything old and hates collecting old technology, I was lucky I could buy 1 pack of vhs tapes and they were only 3 bucks
We do have 1 but it's in a really hard to get place and my dad doesn't want to help get it down, so I might just wait to go to a second hand shop and get one
I'm 18 and I was 11 long before I had a phone and my first music device was a old cassette player listening to old Metallica Pantera most 80s and 90s music I miss them times
Well, but they actually can sound very good, even with a normal 80s or 90s boombox you didn't have spaghetti tape every day or hard wow and flutter.You normally wouldn't even recognize, if it's a cassette or the original CD, exept from the hiss, if you wouldn't see it.But with good Type II or IV tapes or any NR like Dolby B/C/S or Telefunken HighCom you can minimize this bit of background hiss.
I feel sorry for those who only know music in a digital form. A good turntable, for that matter a good cassette deck will outperform the vast majority of digital systems. I`m from the analogue age but I also have digital and the difference is quite astounding.
Digital won't last as long as a physical analogue media! The kids of our generation won't find some old cassettes or records you bought or recorded when you were young. And a spotify or iTunes-playlist might have already been deleted in 20 or 30 years...Well, but you can still play cassettes and vinyl records today like yesterday with good equipment.
What a great video Chris. Thanks for posting. I appreciate all formats of music, but Vinyl is my favorite, and in my opinion you Can't beat the sound of Vinyl. But, one thing I miss the most from when I was a teen was recording music on a cassette tape, making your own compilations. I still do that sometimes and it is so much fun to make a cassette and then play it back and hear the finished product with a lot of your favorite songs on a tape, and the sound is every bit as good as a CD if you use high-Bias tape. It really is a lost art to most people, but I am sure there are other people like me who still Love to make tapes on cassette every now and then.
I feel bad for those kids that have a hard time understanding the way things were. Getting everything you want at the touch of a capacitive screen is nice, but it's important to know how to interact with the physical world around you. Heaven forbid they have to deal with a power outage long enough that their digital devices run out of battery life!
I don't understand how the older ones don't know or how to use a cassette. We all used them like less than 10 years ago. I'm 13 and I had to listen to cassettes and watch videos from a big, thick TV.
Do you understand that cassettes require electricity too. And that these kids know way more. Millions of functions on phone every kid knows way more impressive cause putting a cassette, closing lid and pressing play isn't that complicated. Cassettes require electricity to charge their batteries so no kids won't be worried in power outage good luck with playing your cassettes and radio on dead battery.
Yes honey, you actually had to leave your house to do things in the 80's. And when comparing my audio cassettes to mp3 I can head a difference. The tape (properly created) sounds much better than the mp3.
If the MP3 was made with crap bitrates then yes, otherwise if you use 320Kbps then it's comparable to CD quality. I personally switched to lossless WMA audio years ago, more quality, less wasted storage capacity.
And a good cassette isnt comparable to CD quality? People used to record vinyl to cassette for on the go use, and with the right equipment it sounded great. Portable lossless players are the future, but at home cassettes can sound extremely good (if not better).
1: A BUNCH of R&D went into cassette tapes (materials science, magnetic particles & formulation) & the machines. 2: most decks were general consumer quality with not much between them. SOME decks (incl a particular line of Walkmans) were Pro-sumer/Professional. 3: all possible by their initial commercial success so it was worth the R&D. As commented on elsewhere “NOT as bad as u remember”. Good quality cassette tapes 30-40yrs old still recording just fine .. their open-reel counterparts dont fare as well 4 the lack of R&D hence “sticky shed”. Talk about counter-intuitive🤨. but hey Fun post🤣
Meh, it was actually sort of fun to go to the store and look for a tape, if they didn't have the one you wanted, you could look around and see if there was something else you wanted to get, you could pick up those "best of" compilations and look at the tracklist to see if it had that song you loved. You had the chance to look at the artwork, or pick up the tape and ask the clerk to let you listen to the stuff it had. It was cool to get out of the store with a couple of tapes or CDs, get back home and put them together with the rest, see your collection grow, it was more fulfilling than collecting files, in my opinion. It was kinda fun to call to the stores from your home asking if they had the tape you wanted, that's what phonebooks were for!
That's true, it really depends on where you live though. In my town, the thrift stores have a lot of metal and rock but not even an hour away, it's all gospel and blues.
Good quality tapes & decks will actually blow away the sound of your precious mp3's. An mp3 is just a compressed/reduced (shittier) quality version of what's on a CD, which isn't that good to begin with anyway. It's also ironic for a generation to turn their nose up @ sound quality when an mp3 coupled with an iPod & the ten dollar ear buds they come with are just about as low quality as it gets. You've gained convenience at the sake of quality.
If your CDs sound bad, you've probably got either a poor master or a poor DAC (or both). I like cassettes and I'd say that a good cassette is certainly superior to many 128 kb mp3s, but most albums from the early 80s onwards were recorded on DAT, so the idea that a CD would be inferior is just ludicrous: it's the same digital signal.
I think that digital took over because you could have low quality gear and it would sound much better then low quality gear for analouge. Its about the same quality if you have high quality equipment for both formats. But what i dont get is why cd took over for music, i mean if your going to buy a cd, your probably going to burn it onto a hardrive then put it in storage. Its not portable, and after copying it, theres no point you may as well download it. If you want physical, why not go cassette, they are much more portable and sony made digital audio tapes that would have the same audio quality of cds. They should have mass produced them instead of cds.
Shamic Entertainment DAT was heavily used in the 80s and early 90s in recording studios and was/is a form of storing data on tape in a digital format. Yes it sounds excellent but the only difference between it and a CD is that DAT has a bit depth of 48 kHz rather than 44.1
The fact that they haven't even HEARD of things like radio and cassette is what's painful. Despite growing up in a magnetic tape & vinyl world, at that age I knew something about the stuff that had come before, such as gramophones and radiograms. Yes, they were long obsolete and I rarely came across any real ones, but I at least KNEW about them.
+UncleFeedle It's simply incredible how many formats are out there. I only learned about the Tefifon about a year ago, a format that had something like film tape in what works like a super 8 cartridge but the film is played like a vinyl record.
Wow. I am their age and I know fully what a Walkman is. I have like 10 cassette decks and a bag of cassettes. So funny watching them struggle to get the cassette case open. I got my FIRST one open easily. SO FUNNY!
These kids might think that they are cool and above all the old tech but let's see if they think the same way when their Ipod/phone's battery won't hold a charge anymore and I'll still be listening to my tapes on my walkman. Modern tech is so unreliable, you get a few years of use out of it and it dies, it's been designed that way. Old tech wins.
+Kit Bear Agree. Cassettes may be 'old tech' but that does not make the tech primitive. Modern tech is based around modularity of components, which are mass produced. The actual engineering of a modern music player is ridiculously simple. Gut an old cassette player, and that is engineering porn. The sound quality may not sound the best, but mechanical electronics are always timeless treasures :) There is also something about the ever present hiss and warm sound of a cassette that is pleasing to the ears, that people used to clean audio will never allow themselves the chance to appreciate.
They are just saying cassette sound bad which is completely false is you have a good quality cassette player with Dolby noise reduction and different tape types it can sound WAY better than music on your phone trust me I have a hifi Sherwood stereo system
Kids are sad these day. So sad and spoiled!!! The girl in brown hair annoys me. She was all like "Don't ever say Casingles again, This is ridiculous" Seriously, grow up and accept the technology of the past generation even if you don't like it. She annoys me.
That 14ish year old doesn't remember cassettes? Does she not remember anything before like the age of 7? AND HOW DOES SHE NOT KNOW THAT SOME TYPES OF MUSIC ARE PHYSICAL LIKE WTF THAT'S LIKE 4 YEARS AGO. Even today people have vinyls and stuff. Damn this kids live under a rock guarded by a Minotaur in a castle floating on a lake of lava.
The general public is less interested in music than they ever were. You can now sit down anywhere and watch a video rather than being stuck only listening to music.
the kids are doing it on purpose, they can't be that silly, they talk like it's something from a thousand years ago that people from today can't understand, but getting out of your house and going to the store to buy music is still a normal thing. also you don't have to be old to know how to open the case!!. that's common sense!!!.
How can they not see that the cassette box is in two parts, which mean that it can be open and why is it bad to go outside to talk with other pepeole and buy music ? You can also go to the store by walking, do they know if the bicycle existe, there is not only the car that can make you move and what type of walkman where they using ? There is no hiss on mine and the battery can last like 24h of on 2 2a batteries.
Am I the only one in my generation(born 2000) that knows about the past? I know about vinyl, cassette, CDs, history in general, and things like that? Isometimes I feel like an ancient dwarf wizard that has archaic knowledge of ages long past...
Forget it, kids nowdays don't deserve to know about the golden age of electronics. I'm not even go into detail. A smart kid who cares will just ask you and get interested into it. But about 90% procent are nothing but ignorant and couldn't care less about these things. People that try to explain themselfs for liking something "old" need to reconsider that the person you are trying to explain to is inferior in so many ways. And btw, I'm only 21.
I really enjoyed this pilot. I'm 20 myself and I remember enjoying some of my first bit of music on cassettes when I was really young. I then got my first CD player when I got older, which then eventually led to me getting my first MP3 player (iPods weren't the first MP3 players!), then my first iPod (the Mini, followed by the 5th gen, and then the touch), and now, I'm enjoying my music on an iPhone 5 and iPad mini. Amazing how far technology has come.
Why? for being advanced? It's way more impressive that kids know millions of things on phone so putting cassettes and pressing play isn't that complicated. Try to get some people that don't know much on phones (if there's any cause everybody now knows how to use smartphone)
I for one am a 17 year old, glad to be one of the few who appreciate both old and modern technology. For one, they both product different results. Funny I am watching this video, today I was overjoyed that my father had kept his old Walkman from 1994. Tore it apart and saw it needed some new belts. Bought some, good as new! I take the darn thing nearly everywhere with a 60-minute cassette of some synthwave music. I even take an interest in retro computing/gaming. Got a Windows 98 machine loaded with a Voodoo 2 90/100MHz card alongside an STB Nvidia Velocity card. In the modern aspect, I use a Ryzen 5 1600 machine that I use for gaming and programming. I am proud to be where I am today in both knowledge and experience. It's a real shame for kids today...I'm probably going to keep my stuff stored and pull it out for my kids to educate on what we had back when. Much like today. Rant over.
I played with cassettes when I was little. My Mom used to borrow CDs of Simon & Garfunkel & other '60s artists from the library and I'd eagerly make mixtapes from them on our boomox. Then a few years after getting our first computer, I went about burning my first CDs by playing the cassettes into Windows Sound Recorder. After that I got into WAV & MP3 files. My Dad started recording classical music off the radio back in 1983 when tapes were the latest mainstream thing, when they played LPs on the air because the CD had not yet been invented. Except he never stopped; to this day he continues to add new music to his massive collection, 2000 tapes and counting, 3000 hours, 10,000 works, in beautiful analog sound. It's all cataloged on index cards, and thanks to my efforts, partly in Excel. The clickity-clack of the tireless recorder flipping into action at all hours of the day or night. The red record light. Rewinding, fast-forwarding, editing, erasing. It's a lifestyle, very much a part of the daily experience that never left my family. Does anyone know if another personally-recorded private tape collection as massive as my Dad's exists anywhere? Or is this something really unique?
Why tf don't you let them hear a real good cassette player and tape? It seriously sound so much better than a tinny horrible MP3. Now they think cassette sound horrible, which they don't if you have the right tapes and players...
im 14, I repair cassette decks and walkmans i find at yard sales and estate sales. I also repair 8 track players, turntables, amps, and transistor radios and tube radios. I have a personal collection of 8 tracks, cassettes, and records. I think today's generation is ignorant to the past. It disgusts me that they have no idea what a cassette is or how to use them. My god it makes me cringe. If you want to collect these formats, DO NOT BUY A CHEAP CROSLEY/6 IN 1 TO PLAY THEM ON! They damage records and eat cassettes. Coming from my own experience. Go to yard sales and estate sales and find some vintage stuff to play them on, or search ebay. Good luck!
wow it's hard to imagine growing up in a scenario where there has always been high technology since I was born. A big part of why I love tech so much is because I've seen it grow from nearly unusable to something that has become an incredible phenomenon in our lives!
I was 14 when that Ace of Bass track was new, my first cassette tape machine hack for high speed recording... played that song back in it's first recording!
I like these videos where young people react to old technology what I like about this one is how the man is really explaining to them why the changes in the technology happened.
I'm not sure but a bunch of kids from the UK may have reacted differently! My 13-year-old daughter loves cassettes and records her Spotify playlist using a Denon Deck her grandad gave her. She says she likes it because it sounds so different to digital streaming music.
Walkman and cassette tape are not that hard to use or operate, I swear this kid won’t even trying and say that they want the easy way. Download music onto your phone is there’s no different, than recording you’re still have to wait until complete. These kids make me sad, how they trashed Walkman and prefer iPhone or any phone device anyday. Cause it’s easy to used, I ashamed of these kids...
I remember cassette tapes. CD’s are better because you don’t have to rewind. However, to listen to a different song on the cassette, you have to rewind or fast forward.
I'm a 90's kid, and Ace of Base kicked ass, and so did my waterproof Walkman. Those were the days when you had to use actual batteries. Good times. Kids these days have everything super easy.
I recently bought a car. I was overly happy it came with the original radio set up. CD, am/fm, and of course a tape deck! Now I can listen to all my tapes once more. *loads up Grim Reaper's Fear No Evil tape And drives off into the sunset*
They may be outdated, but two major downsides of digital music are file corruption over time, and DRM protection( AKA: Digital shackles. ), and a cassette will still work over the years as long as it is in good condition.
im 37, but i felt like a WW2 veteran by watching those kids baffled for a bunch of cassettes
Well I'm 19, and I feel the same way. Cheers!
I'm 17 and they made me feel old and I am not much older then they are. I remember using cassettes as a kid.
Dont worry, those kids someday will have that horrible feeling too ;)
I'm 14 and I regularly use cassettes. these kids don't learn very quick either as it took them a good minute to figure out what it was
Well, I'm 15 and regularly use cassettes with my Technics RS-BX606 deck!
I am kind of surprised these kids don`t know what a cassette tape is. Kinda sad if you ask me.
Plutonius X Yeah its kind of sad, load of people at my school thought the TV was from the 80s, I had a good laugh explaining to them the TV is from 1928, not even close.
Plutonius X Those kids were all born after 2000. I stopped buying prerecorded cassettes in the late 80s and stopped listening to them around 1998 Cassettes were great for dubbing but the prerecorded ones were too expensive considering how fragile they could be.
***** TV's werent even around in 1928 son.
Vendetta101films Mechanical television was first demonstrated on March 25, 1925. The concept of an all-electronic television existed on paper going back to 1922 but wasn't demonstrated until 1927 or 1928. Television signals were not available until the mid 30s in the UK. Some of the first images were designed for mechanical television and showed 32-line silhouettes of people reading stories.
Plutonius X IKR?mhavent these kids seen hipsters, or guardians of the Galaxy, or have been into their uncle's attic before?y
"CDs confuse me."
Holy crap...
She is stupid!
CD's aren't even that much of an outdated technology, almost all new albums are still released on CD's.
***** No one you know buys 'em, but there's still hundreds of millions sold every year. It's going to be around for a long time, if only because it (and vinyl) are better than digital for audiophiles.
Yuko Asho
Duh, CD's are digital...
Yuko Asho CDs confuse her, but a little chip the size of her pinky-nail can hold over 128 times the data.
Why are they acting like they're unfamiliar with headphones?
They don't remember the days headphones covered your whole ear, were held in place by a strap over the top of your head, and had large enough speakers that they sounded nice.
IAmNotAFunguy Over ear headphones are extremely common today...Beats?? What planet you on?
Jim Glenn Beats fucking SUCKS, do not mention that blasphemy here.
Jim Glenn
I don't get it either. The "Kids React" video on Walkmans also featured kids similarly bemused by headphones.
Either they're used to playing music through speakers or they only listen with earbuds
I think they were made to act stupid, I mean, it's not supposed to be that hard to find a rewind and play button, right?
No offense to the younger generation, but I'd gladly take the old technology over any of the modern stuff today.
But please not the Wii U I am saving money on. I will give you my whole Pokémon card collection.
Me too, BY FAR! I still listen to 8-Track tapes in 2014.
i would too i'm 21 and when i was little i would have my sister and brother record some songs from animes and video games and make mix tapes like mortal kombat because back then they didn't sell japanese cds to the us yet or was popular. lol nowadays i feel like the new generation are lacking creativity and overall their ipod and smart phones last only 4 hours compared to using like batteries that take a few days to recharge or buy new ones. We had more dedication to go to music stores and buy our favorite artist's cds or cassettes.
actually i would to
Exactly! I'm 14 id prefer it all to this newer junk!
I'm 14 and I have been using cassettes ever sense I can remember and still use my Walkman.
I have no idea how anyone doesn't know how to use a cassette player or even know how to open a cassette case. Are they paying them to act stupid??
I'm the same as you
+Tankey Hudson It doesn't matter how old you are, if you have NEVER seen something or NEVER been shown something there is no way they could have known about them!
Just because they have never seen them that does not make them stupid!
And by the same logic, that does NOT make YOU more INTELLIGENT just because you have!!!
Do you know how to programme a Sinclair ZX Spectrum?????
NO? well I do!!
I bet you dont even know what the hell a Sinclair ZX Spectrum is do you???
So does that make you STUPID
+Liberation 8 Then stop calling kids ignorant!
LadyDominion I don't believe I did call kids ignorant????
I was defending the kids here!
+Liberation 8 I'm talking about all adults.
Im 14 and I'm obsessed with Cassettes and walkmans, I collect them XD
Do you still do this?
Me too...
Sameee
I'm 44 and I have a vast Spotify Playlist. It's more convenient, music in demand and I don't have to buy any players. Just my phone, pc and a Bluetooth speaker. Plus I don't have to worry about storage and clutter to collect cassettes..
Just kidding. Cassette culture is great. Keep it up guys. Analog is personal and it's yours! Tangible music that you can hold 👌👌👌
Getting kids to care about cassette tapes and walkmen is a) hilarious b) helped with Ace of Base c) makes you nostalgic or d) all of the above. Check out this new show idea and let us know what you think!
I already did lol
a), b), c) *b)*, is there an easter egg in your post?
d. Definitely d.
What's the Big Deal? B & C
+What's the Big Deal? *e) Guardians of The Galaxy*
RIP: Lou Ottens, the inventor of the cassette tape, dies today aged 94
(Thu 11 Mar 2021 22h26)
A bin full of old cassettes and walkmans? That's heaven to me.
I am very intrigued with old tech. And I want to get as much of it now, so I can show off then. :)
you get better audio quality with certain older portable technology compare to mp3 now a days. thats really sad. for example CDs, walkman mini disc, cd players.....
I’m still using cassettes. Bought six boomboxes from eBay and now buying high quality blank cassettes and can’t wait to make my own mix tapes like I used to in the eighties.
I STILL USING CASSETTES YES I AM
Yes!! Join the club
YES I AM THANKS
+Rami Azzedine i am 15 and i use cassetes
Vader Starlight Cassettes are awesome! Good on ya'
Blacklight8001 thanks finaly somoene who understand ;) i am just now recording some led zepplin to a cassete
im so old and such an a-hole, im suprised that kids born in the 2000's can even talk.
I know, even though I'm 14 I am surprised how dumb they are
Miles Wilson
dude... smh.
BootyButterPi I'm 15, and I would be suprised if these kids know how to turn on a tv MANUALLY.
Hint, sarcasm is strong in OP.
I was born in 2003. I love cassettes
I was always afraid to buy the whole album because most of the time I only enjoyed one or two songs from the album. At the time, (at least for me)buying the whole album was big investment :)
That's definitely where iTunes is a big plus, at least imo. Back then, the "cassingles" (don't remember using that word, btw) and CD singles were a lot nicer for me because I just wanted that one song I fell in love with on the radio, not a bunch of other songs that happened to be on a huge CD I may or may not like. And if one didn't want to deal with all that or *get* a tape or CD, or couldn't duplicate the faves for a "mix-tape" (for example, if you had a boombox with only *one* tape deck), your option was to listen to your radio on the boombox with the tape in place for that one song, then frantically hit the record/play buttons, hoping that a) you didn't cut off *too* much of the intro and/or b) you didn't get *too* much of the obnoxious DJ who just *wouldn't* stop talking over your music!
Nowadays, not only can you pick and choose an album song or single here and there on iTunes and download it, but you can go through your own CDs, pick and choose the songs you listen to, and just sync it to your iPod. No DJ included.
Man, kids have it good!!! ;)
All the magic comes from listening to the piano man in action.
"Milli ..... Vanilli... ?"
Yeah, because everybody uses sensible real names these days. Don't they, Chamillionaire? That's right, isn't it, FKA Twigs? Know what I mean, Tinie Tempah? Lady Gaga? Flo Rida? Will.I.Am? Deadmau5?
Milli Vanilli just sounds ludicrous, doesn't it ...erm.... Ludacris?
That was a cringe moment without a doubt. No doubt? ;)
I was a teenager during the first half of the seventies. But I don't think of that era's tech with any fondness. The tech of yesteryear seems so antiquated now, and I wouldn't expect today's kids to even consider it. Even my musical memorabilia is digitally remastered, and I'm glad that I don't have to take films into a shop to get them processed. No audio tape, no video tape, and no film. Yesterday was yesterday, and yesterday's future suits me just fine.
No, we didn't have mobile phones, Blu, but we led more interesting lives and listened to better music.
***** Yup. Social media is pretty much destroying human contact. When we were kids there were no cell phones, internet or ipods. We would ride our bikes and go to each other's houses to see each other. I probably rode my bike 15+ kms a day and it was fun.
the better music thing is subjective
***** 'Shut the fuck up'. Sounds like you're part of that 'shitty music' generation. Go home, kid.
MY point is that you started your response by telling me to 'Shut the fuck up'.
Every single old person of all generations has argued that elders should be respected...or is THAT an antiquated concept?
***** yeah but this generation is getting worse and worse. Technolgy will be humanities downfall.
That girl looked like she was suffering from Facebook withdrawal
I still play vinyl, cassettes and cd's. I'm 22, and I think downloading music suck fucking ass!
this just hurts to watch. and I'm 13
im 14 and my mom got me a walkman and cassette tapes
The first time my dad explained cassettes to me, I was 10 and I now use cassettes and I'm 13 now.
Why are people getting mad about them not knowing about cassettes? I mean do people really think they're gonna spend hundreds of dollars on cassette decks and speakers and whatnot to listen to Taylor Swift, Lil Pump whatever? Maybe they should know a little something but..... It's outdated and unreliable.
Honestly, cassettes sorta suck for listening. They're good for recording and processing audio though.
I'm 17 and grew up with cassettes because my grandma raised me I love them
That hissing sound that you hate actually what gives the gritty feel for old time blues.
all the children I've ever spoken to know what cassette tapes are and they also know what a walkman is, so how do these kids not know?
I have never been a cassette fan but vinyl on the other hand is the bomb and nobody could ever convince me otherwise
I don't want to live on this planet anymore seeing kids so confused by cassettes.
Feels ridiculous, but it's only natural.
Gees, those kids are dying of boredom
No doubt🙄
1) Tape Deck or Tape Player - 2 cassette players in one chassis or a single cassette player
2) CD Player - A device that plays optical discs
3) 8 Track Player- A device that plays cartridge-based tapes
4) Boombox - A all-in-one stereo with a CD or Tape Player or Both
5) Phonograph or Record Player - A machine that plays vinyl
- Vinyl - A huge CD
6) Tuner - A AM/FM Transmitter device built-in a radio or a external device
7) Reel-to-Reel Tapes - Harder than just putting a cassette into a slot - A machine used in recording studios and radio broadcast stations
I grew up using tapes and most most of these things listed above. I'm 24!
grew up having used or experienced all but reel to reel tapes for me, an 35
I was born in 2000 too and I know all about the old technology
What i learned from pro cassette users, want to have the best analogue sound that almost rivals the best digital sound, use metal tape based cassettes (the best around) and play them on players that support Dolby noise reduction system version S, this will remove the hissssss background noise making the sound as clean has digital.
I'm 13 and I bought a cassette deck yesterday.
Well duh, that's bc you're into nostalgia. Otherwise, there's no use for these things.
William Henry Harrison I'm 14 I used to collect these things when I were 8 including things like black and white TV's etc.. my dad hated the collection he thought it was all worthless junk lets see that in 20 years time...
Wow u guys are lucky, my dad hates anything old and hates collecting old technology, I was lucky I could buy 1 pack of vhs tapes and they were only 3 bucks
Shamic Entertainment You got any VCR to record with them? Try get a toploader or the standard frontloader's are still fine
We do have 1 but it's in a really hard to get place and my dad doesn't want to help get it down, so I might just wait to go to a second hand shop and get one
I'm 18 and I was 11 long before I had a phone and my first music device was a old cassette player listening to old Metallica Pantera most 80s and 90s music I miss them times
they may not have had a cellphone, but you could still use a LANDLINE to call the music store to see if they had their "Cassingles" in stock!
Honestly, I think you emphasized on the negatives too much on the technology and made them look worse than they are
As is the case with most cassette videos. Everyone remembers them as shit.
Well, but they actually can sound very good, even with a normal 80s or 90s boombox you didn't have spaghetti tape every day or hard wow and flutter.You normally wouldn't even recognize, if it's a cassette or the original CD, exept from the hiss, if you wouldn't see it.But with good Type II or IV tapes or any NR like Dolby B/C/S or Telefunken HighCom you can minimize this bit of background hiss.
I was falling for her till she said “CDs confuse me”
I feel sorry for those who only know music in a digital form. A good turntable, for that matter a good cassette deck will outperform the vast majority of digital systems. I`m from the analogue age but I also have digital and the difference is quite astounding.
Agreed
Analog music sounds better as well, hence the reason I listen to records tapes ect still
Digital won't last as long as a physical analogue media!
The kids of our generation won't find some old cassettes or records you bought or recorded when you were young. And a spotify or iTunes-playlist might have already been deleted in 20 or 30 years...Well, but you can still play cassettes and vinyl records today like yesterday with good equipment.
What a great video Chris. Thanks for posting. I appreciate all formats of music, but Vinyl is my favorite, and in my opinion you Can't beat the sound of Vinyl. But, one thing I miss the most from when I was a teen was recording music on a cassette tape, making your own compilations. I still do that sometimes and it is so much fun to make a cassette and then play it back and hear the finished product with a lot of your favorite songs on a tape, and the sound is every bit as good as a CD if you use high-Bias tape. It really is a lost art to most people, but I am sure there are other people like me who still Love to make tapes on cassette every now and then.
I feel bad for those kids that have a hard time understanding the way things were. Getting everything you want at the touch of a capacitive screen is nice, but it's important to know how to interact with the physical world around you. Heaven forbid they have to deal with a power outage long enough that their digital devices run out of battery life!
I don't understand how the older ones don't know or how to use a cassette. We all used them like less than 10 years ago. I'm 13 and I had to listen to cassettes and watch videos from a big, thick TV.
arianasbibble Maybe they lead sheltered lives? I'm just glad that they're probably in the minority.
Do you understand that cassettes require electricity too. And that these kids know way more. Millions of functions on phone every kid knows way more impressive cause putting a cassette, closing lid and pressing play isn't that complicated. Cassettes require electricity to charge their batteries so no kids won't be worried in power outage good luck with playing your cassettes and radio on dead battery.
Yes honey, you actually had to leave your house to do things in the 80's. And when comparing my audio cassettes to mp3 I can head a difference. The tape (properly created) sounds much better than the mp3.
If the MP3 was made with crap bitrates then yes, otherwise if you use 320Kbps then it's comparable to CD quality. I personally switched to lossless WMA audio years ago, more quality, less wasted storage capacity.
And a good cassette isnt comparable to CD quality? People used to record vinyl to cassette for on the go use, and with the right equipment it sounded great. Portable lossless players are the future, but at home cassettes can sound extremely good (if not better).
3:00 I need to find this "garbage place"
The idea of a cassette player isn't that strange, even if you've never heard of it. A different way of storing music, nothing weird about it.
toshineon Yeah, you can still find cassette players and blank tapes sold everywhere like at Walgreen's.
I'm 21 years old, and prefer cassettes instead of files.
is like a mp3 with external memory card
end of the story..
seriously we are not in 2075
1: A BUNCH of R&D went into cassette tapes (materials science, magnetic particles & formulation) & the machines. 2: most decks were general consumer quality with not much between them. SOME decks (incl a particular line of Walkmans) were Pro-sumer/Professional. 3: all possible by their initial commercial success so it was worth the R&D. As commented on elsewhere “NOT as bad as u remember”. Good quality cassette tapes 30-40yrs old still recording just fine .. their open-reel counterparts dont fare as well 4 the lack of R&D hence “sticky shed”. Talk about counter-intuitive🤨. but hey Fun post🤣
3:42 Sigh... Idiocracy is real.
My god, I'm only 21 and this makes me feel old. They didn't even know how to open a cassette case. Great show. You should defiantly do more.
Meh, it was actually sort of fun to go to the store and look for a tape, if they didn't have the one you wanted, you could look around and see if there was something else you wanted to get, you could pick up those "best of" compilations and look at the tracklist to see if it had that song you loved. You had the chance to look at the artwork, or pick up the tape and ask the clerk to let you listen to the stuff it had. It was cool to get out of the store with a couple of tapes or CDs, get back home and put them together with the rest, see your collection grow, it was more fulfilling than collecting files, in my opinion.
It was kinda fun to call to the stores from your home asking if they had the tape you wanted, that's what phonebooks were for!
It's actually quite fun now as it's more of a witch hunt than anything else.
Yeah, but it tends to get frustrating because in most stores the stock they have is... well... mediocre.
That's true, it really depends on where you live though. In my town, the thrift stores have a lot of metal and rock but not even an hour away, it's all gospel and blues.
20, and thank god I have an appreciation for old tech. I remember my cassettes fondly
Good quality tapes & decks will actually blow away the sound of your precious mp3's.
An mp3 is just a compressed/reduced (shittier) quality version of what's on a CD, which isn't that good to begin with anyway.
It's also ironic for a generation to turn their nose up @ sound quality when an mp3 coupled with an iPod & the ten dollar ear buds they come with are just about as low quality as it gets. You've gained convenience at the sake of quality.
yup ,in the mid 90s i still used high quality cassettes that sounded no different to CDs
If your CDs sound bad, you've probably got either a poor master or a poor DAC (or both). I like cassettes and I'd say that a good cassette is certainly superior to many 128 kb mp3s, but most albums from the early 80s onwards were recorded on DAT, so the idea that a CD would be inferior is just ludicrous: it's the same digital signal.
Ive heard that you can get cassete tapes that use the digital format instead of analouge. Digital audio tapes i think
I think that digital took over because you could have low quality gear and it would sound much better then low quality gear for analouge. Its about the same quality if you have high quality equipment for both formats. But what i dont get is why cd took over for music, i mean if your going to buy a cd, your probably going to burn it onto a hardrive then put it in storage. Its not portable, and after copying it, theres no point you may as well download it. If you want physical, why not go cassette, they are much more portable and sony made digital audio tapes that would have the same audio quality of cds. They should have mass produced them instead of cds.
Shamic Entertainment DAT was heavily used in the 80s and early 90s in recording studios and was/is a form of storing data on tape in a digital format. Yes it sounds excellent but the only difference between it and a CD is that DAT has a bit depth of 48 kHz rather than 44.1
Bruh I'm only 15 and I still use those!!!!!!
I am 18 an I don't use iPods tablits or any of that stuff. I use record players , VCR machines and walkmans I love retro! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌😎😎😎
+Andrew Anderson if that was true you wouldn't be using so many emojis
+Andrew Anderson wow ur cool
Tablet... it’s spelled tablet...
Do these kids also struggle to open a book?
The fact that they haven't even HEARD of things like radio and cassette is what's painful. Despite growing up in a magnetic tape & vinyl world, at that age I knew something about the stuff that had come before, such as gramophones and radiograms. Yes, they were long obsolete and I rarely came across any real ones, but I at least KNEW about them.
+UncleFeedle It's simply incredible how many formats are out there. I only learned about the Tefifon about a year ago, a format that had something like film tape in what works like a super 8 cartridge but the film is played like a vinyl record.
+Spacekriek Yeah but that's excusable because the Tefifon is germany only.
Oh myyyy these kids no NOTHING about old technology. I'm 13 and I listen to records and cassettes on a daily basis
Wow. I am their age and I know fully what a Walkman is. I have like 10 cassette decks and a bag of cassettes. So funny watching them struggle to get the cassette case open. I got my FIRST one open easily. SO FUNNY!
Thanks for the feedback!
These kids might think that they are cool and above all the old tech but let's see if they think the same way when their Ipod/phone's battery won't hold a charge anymore and I'll still be listening to my tapes on my walkman.
Modern tech is so unreliable, you get a few years of use out of it and it dies, it's been designed that way.
Old tech wins.
Poke marzel But (as I've stated) for how long? 2 - 3 years?
Poke marzel What makes you thinkl O'm angry?!
Kit Bear I miss the good old days. I started listening to my cassette tapes on my Walkman again.
+Kit Bear Agree. Cassettes may be 'old tech' but that does not make the tech primitive. Modern tech is based around modularity of components, which are mass produced. The actual engineering of a modern music player is ridiculously simple. Gut an old cassette player, and that is engineering porn. The sound quality may not sound the best, but mechanical electronics are always timeless treasures :)
There is also something about the ever present hiss and warm sound of a cassette that is pleasing to the ears, that people used to clean audio will never allow themselves the chance to appreciate.
+Kit Bear And you'll still be BUYING BATTERIES for your power hungry walkman too!
They are just saying cassette sound bad which is completely false is you have a good quality cassette player with Dolby noise reduction and different tape types it can sound WAY better than music on your phone trust me I have a hifi Sherwood stereo system
Kids are sad these day. So sad and spoiled!!! The girl in brown hair annoys me. She was all like "Don't ever say Casingles again, This is ridiculous" Seriously, grow up and accept the technology of the past generation even if you don't like it. She annoys me.
Music_Lights Cassingles never existed sweetie. It was a joke.
Vendetta101films I know but she still shouldent have been rude to the guy.
+Music_Lights I know what you mean, but I have never ever heard the word cassingles, and I grew up with cassettes. Cassingles sounds ridiculous.
Vodiniat Yea it does lol. But the girl overall was just being rude.
+Music_Lights Cassingles suck though, why are you defending them
im 13 but i like and use cassettes
I'm 15 and I've used cassettes before
For now, yes. Thanks for watching Michael!
That 14ish year old doesn't remember cassettes? Does she not remember anything before like the age of 7? AND HOW DOES SHE NOT KNOW THAT SOME TYPES OF MUSIC ARE PHYSICAL LIKE WTF THAT'S LIKE 4 YEARS AGO. Even today people have vinyls and stuff. Damn this kids live under a rock guarded by a Minotaur in a castle floating on a lake of lava.
+NickNinjaHD Or at least CDs
The general public is less interested in music than they ever were. You can now sit down anywhere and watch a video rather than being stuck only listening to music.
the kids are doing it on purpose, they can't be that silly, they talk like it's something from a thousand years ago that people from today can't understand, but getting out of your house and going to the store to buy music is still a normal thing. also you don't have to be old to know how to open the case!!. that's common sense!!!.
How can they not see that the cassette box is in two parts, which mean that it can be open and why is it bad to go outside to talk with other pepeole and buy music ? You can also go to the store by walking, do they know if the bicycle existe, there is not only the car that can make you move and what type of walkman where they using ? There is no hiss on mine and the battery can last like 24h of on 2 2a batteries.
Nintenloup wolf you spelled people wrong. But besides that you’re right
Am I the only one in my generation(born 2000) that knows about the past? I know about vinyl, cassette, CDs, history in general, and things like that? Isometimes I feel like an ancient dwarf wizard that has archaic knowledge of ages long past...
David Gorbov nope, I know quite a bit too
This had me laughing, crying and doing both at the same time.
I'll take having this old tech then being stuck staring at my phone all damn day
Forget it, kids nowdays don't deserve to know about the golden age of electronics. I'm not even go into detail. A smart kid who cares will just ask you and get interested into it. But about 90% procent are nothing but ignorant and couldn't care less about these things. People that try to explain themselfs for liking something "old" need to reconsider that the person you are trying to explain to is inferior in so many ways. And btw, I'm only 21.
I really enjoyed this pilot. I'm 20 myself and I remember enjoying some of my first bit of music on cassettes when I was really young. I then got my first CD player when I got older, which then eventually led to me getting my first MP3 player (iPods weren't the first MP3 players!), then my first iPod (the Mini, followed by the 5th gen, and then the touch), and now, I'm enjoying my music on an iPhone 5 and iPad mini. Amazing how far technology has come.
see Blu, too much technology addiction, not enough personal interaction = worst generation
try my shoe wow...
You’re like a old grandpa chastising his grandchildren for wanting to stay in during summer
These kids were mean and dumb at the same time!
im ashamed of my generation
Couldn't have said it better!
Why? for being advanced? It's way more impressive that kids know millions of things on phone so putting cassettes and pressing play isn't that complicated. Try to get some people that don't know much on phones (if there's any cause everybody now knows how to use smartphone)
Soon our kids will say. Daddy, what was wifi. They would pronounce it wi-fee.
Oh don't get me started, I get enough of that shit from Old people on the Tech Support line XD
I for one am a 17 year old, glad to be one of the few who appreciate both old and modern technology. For one, they both product different results. Funny I am watching this video, today I was overjoyed that my father had kept his old Walkman from 1994. Tore it apart and saw it needed some new belts. Bought some, good as new! I take the darn thing nearly everywhere with a 60-minute cassette of some synthwave music. I even take an interest in retro computing/gaming. Got a Windows 98 machine loaded with a Voodoo 2 90/100MHz card alongside an STB Nvidia Velocity card.
In the modern aspect, I use a Ryzen 5 1600 machine that I use for gaming and programming. I am proud to be where I am today in both knowledge and experience.
It's a real shame for kids today...I'm probably going to keep my stuff stored and pull it out for my kids to educate on what we had back when. Much like today.
Rant over.
These people aren't real are they, like they're actors right?
The wonders of edits. Don't just assume these kids are stupid, it's just unfamiliar to them.
As pilots go, I like this one.
Just testing this as a pilot for now, but we'll be sure to point everyone to more episodes
I played with cassettes when I was little. My Mom used to borrow CDs of Simon & Garfunkel & other '60s artists from the library and I'd eagerly make mixtapes from them on our boomox. Then a few years after getting our first computer, I went about burning my first CDs by playing the cassettes into Windows Sound Recorder. After that I got into WAV & MP3 files.
My Dad started recording classical music off the radio back in 1983 when tapes were the latest mainstream thing, when they played LPs on the air because the CD had not yet been invented. Except he never stopped; to this day he continues to add new music to his massive collection, 2000 tapes and counting, 3000 hours, 10,000 works, in beautiful analog sound. It's all cataloged on index cards, and thanks to my efforts, partly in Excel. The clickity-clack of the tireless recorder flipping into action at all hours of the day or night. The red record light. Rewinding, fast-forwarding, editing, erasing. It's a lifestyle, very much a part of the daily experience that never left my family.
Does anyone know if another personally-recorded private tape collection as massive as my Dad's exists anywhere? Or is this something really unique?
Why tf don't you let them hear a real good cassette player and tape? It seriously sound so much better than a tinny horrible MP3. Now they think cassette sound horrible, which they don't if you have the right tapes and players...
im 14, I repair cassette decks and walkmans i find at yard sales and estate sales. I also repair 8 track players, turntables, amps, and transistor radios and tube radios. I have a personal collection of 8 tracks, cassettes, and records. I think today's generation is ignorant to the past. It disgusts me that they have no idea what a cassette is or how to use them. My god it makes me cringe.
If you want to collect these formats, DO NOT BUY A CHEAP CROSLEY/6 IN 1 TO PLAY THEM ON! They damage records and eat cassettes. Coming from my own experience. Go to yard sales and estate sales and find some vintage stuff to play them on, or search ebay. Good luck!
wow it's hard to imagine growing up in a scenario where there has always been high technology since I was born. A big part of why I love tech so much is because I've seen it grow from nearly unusable to something that has become an incredible phenomenon in our lives!
I was 14 when that Ace of Bass track was new, my first cassette tape machine hack for high speed recording... played that song back in it's first recording!
I like these videos where young people react to old technology what I like about this one is how the man is really explaining to them why the changes in the technology happened.
I'm not sure but a bunch of kids from the UK may have reacted differently! My 13-year-old daughter loves cassettes and records her Spotify playlist using a Denon Deck her grandad gave her. She says she likes it because it sounds so different to digital streaming music.
Walkman and cassette tape are not that hard to use or operate, I swear this kid won’t even trying and say that they want the easy way.
Download music onto your phone is there’s no different, than recording you’re still have to wait until complete. These kids make me sad, how they trashed Walkman and prefer iPhone or any phone device anyday.
Cause it’s easy to used, I ashamed of these kids...
I'm 17 and I feel so freaking old watching these kids...
Don't ever expose children to Milli Vanilli!
I remember cassette tapes. CD’s are better because you don’t have to rewind. However, to listen to a different song on the cassette, you have to rewind or fast forward.
I'm a 90's kid, and Ace of Base kicked ass, and so did my waterproof Walkman. Those were the days when you had to use actual batteries. Good times.
Kids these days have everything super easy.
Technically you could plug in a speaker to a walkman via audio jack.
I recently bought a car. I was overly happy it came with the original radio set up. CD, am/fm, and of course a tape deck! Now I can listen to all my tapes once more. *loads up Grim Reaper's Fear No Evil tape And drives off into the sunset*
They may be outdated, but two major downsides of digital music are file corruption over time, and DRM protection( AKA: Digital shackles. ), and a cassette will still work over the years as long as it is in good condition.
I like how the first album they show is Billy Joel. He's my favorite, despite not making any new material in 20 years!
It's a bit misleading to the kids implying cassettes only hold a few songs when in reality they could hold up to 2 hours(30-40 songs)
you must make this show a reality! kids must know how good they have it!