Warning major venting ahead.

[Rainbowreflect]

Why do stores refuse to sell anything that was not invented in the last 2 years?????
I need a 120 minute audio cassette tape.
Best Buys don't carry them.
Circuit City, nope.
Tried other stores and found one that has 60 minute tapes, but that is all.
What is a person that needs to tape something suppose to do.
Before Christmas I searched all over town for a video tape, that's right VHS, for my brother-in-law who is rude enough to not own a DVD player. We had to special order it.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. Where do you live?

I can get VHS tapes at the drugstore.

[Rainbowreflect]

3. Blank VHS tapes, sure.

Also the most current movies, but if it's older then six months forget it.

[Coventina]

2. Orphaned technology

Very frustrating, I agree!

It is a way to make you keep spending money to keep updating....

[liberalhistorian]

6. BINGO!!!

n/t

[RandomKoolzip]

4. All technology is purposefully doomed to obsolecence.

That's how technology/electronic/computer/appliance/entertainment corporations shore up profits: make people buy the same shit over and over, with minor modifications each time disguised as major overhauls.

edisoncylinders+78's=vinyl45s=vinyl331/3+8tracks=cassettes+CD's=DVDaudio, etc. etc. It's all the same shit, and yet I have to pay more each time a new format comes along, even if I'm not all that impressed with the improvements.

[scottcsmith]

5. If you don't mind buying online...

You can get it here:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R27512CF6

Or get it from TDK:
http://www.tdk.com/recmedia/audio/index.html

Or Amazon:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z6A512CF6

[Rainbowreflect]

7. Thank you!

I should have known DUers would save the day.

[pansypoo53219]

8. anybody need beta tapes?

got tons of em, used by i suppose usable.

[tkmorris]

9. LOL

I had the baddest VCR ever built in about 1989. Spent a small fortune for it. Within 6 months the local video store stopped carrying Betamax format tapes altogether. I sometimes wonder if that buying decision wasn't the genesis of my first divorce........