Will they continue to produce cassette tapes?

[anotheoldgit]

I still have analogue radios that incorporate tape decks in them.

But do they produce a DAB radio with recording facilities?

[scotman]

Some record onto SD memory cards or something similar.

[flobadob]

I think that it is illegal to record from the radio oldgit. You wouldn't want to break the law would you?

[Buenchico]

The Roberts RD-55 is the simplest of currently available DAB recording options but it doesn't have a timer facility:
http://www.robertsrad...s/Gemini_55/index.htm
(Around £80)

The Pure Evoke 3 can be set to record up to 20 timed events:
http://www.pure.com/p...ct=VL-60954&Category=
(Around £162 from several sources, with refurbished radios avaliable on Amazon Marketplace for around £100)

There are a few other DAB radios which offer recording facilities but those two appear to be the best of the bunch.

Basic information sourced from the 2011 edition of the Radio Listener's Guide which, if you're really interested in radio, I can strongly recommend. (£6.90 per copy, including postage, but only £13.80 for a 3-year subscription):
http://www.radiolistenersguide.co.uk/

Chris

[Buenchico]

PS: To answer the question in your title:
You can still buy reel-to-reel audio tapes. You can still buy VHS video tapes. So I suspect that cassette tapes will continue to be available for quite some time yet

[JonnyBoy12]

I would not bank on that at all. If something does not sell well then shops and stores do not stock it. If you really need them then I would buy all the tapes you need now. You may not get a second chance later when they have all gone the way of the dinosaurs.

[whiskeryron]

http://www.amazon.co....qid=1314468543&sr=1-1

Ron.

[Buenchico]

Don't be misled, Ron.

The word 'digital' in that description refers to the display, not to DAB radio. (It's only an AM/FM radio, with a built-in cassette recorder).

[whiskeryron]

Sorry AOG the link I gave you is for a Cassette Player, Can't find DAB Cassette Recorder. Will keep looking.

Ron.

[whiskeryron]

OK thanks Chris.

Ron.

[whiskeryron]

http://forums.digital...wthread.php?t=1473390

Ron.

[scotman]

Further to Chris's main post.

I have not seen old-style cassettes on sale in Edinburgh for well over 1 year. They may still be available through mail order/internet etc.
If you are serious about radio I can also recommend 'The Radio Listeners Guide' as a very useful document. Well worth the money.

[gingejbee]

scotman: Edinburgh has a Richer Sounds and Richer Sounds have cassette tapes (TDK).

[whiskeryron]

Good morning AOG how are you today?

Ron.

[scotman]

I have followed link as suggested above

http://www.richersounds.com/search/cassette

You may get them locally elsewhere as well.

[anotheoldgit]

flobadob

/// I think that it is illegal to record from the radio oldgit. You wouldn't want to break the law would you? ///

Then why did they produce radios with recording facilities?

i wonder how many people can honestly say they have never recorded off the radio, especially during 'Top of the Pops'?

Remember when most teenagers would sit in front of their cassette radios with their finger on the pause button ready to cut out the DJ's voice at the end of the music?

Even when twin decks where introduced onto the British market by Amstrad, the record companies took Alan Sugar to court, in a bid to make his machine illegal, because they said people were copying pre-recorded tapes onto blank tapes.

incidentally they lost their case and the rest is history.

[anotheoldgit]

And good morning to you Ron, I am very well.thank you for asking.

Buenchico

Thank you for all your interesting and most informative feed-back to my question.

Thank you everyone, for taking the time to answer my query.

[flobadob]

oldgit, I'm just saying I think it's illegal, I'm not saying people do or don't record the radio.