Our solution was to provide the best possible playback on a high-quality cassette deck, a direct and balanced signal path, and high quality analog-to-digital conversion at the preservation standard of 24 bits, 96.1 kHz.
The movement, which focused on the recording and distribution of music on low-quality cassette tapes, initially emerged in the 1980s.
A good quality video cassette, played on a decent VCR and television, is as near to the calibre of a DVD as makes no odds.
After initially balking at potential piracy issues, the record industry recognizes that the limited quality of cassette copies poses no true threat.
While Sony's Betamax could offer better video quality, VHS cassettes could run longer, were produced more cheaply and had the backing of the porn industry VHS won out in 1988 when Sony conceded victory by producing its first VHS VCR, therefore shunning its own format.
First presented in 1982 to Michael Nesmith for Elephant Parts, the award was reserved for quality "video cassettes or discs in any format created specifically for the home video market".
The plantiffs in that case Disney; Universal Studios, now jointly owned by General Electric and Vivendi Universal ; and others embraced the home video market, selling and renting high-quality video cassettes with movies and music videos on them.
Cassette quality is not much better than someone standing in a theater holding a camcorder.
Digital voice recorders may have superior sound quality to most cassette tape recorders, but their memory only lasts for a couple of hours.
Some of the earliest footage captures ordinary life with long, static shots: a mosque being cleaned at dawn, a metalworker chiselling out a repetitive pattern, an argument over sound quality at a cassette shop.
