Talk:Elcaset

I thought it was called Elcaset rather than Elcassette. Can anyone confirm? Lee M 18:49, 22 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I've gone to the talk page to ask the same question. I think it was Elcaset. I will verify on Google. Ericd 20:26, 22 Aug 2003 (UTC)

It was Elcaset see : http://home.iae.nl/users/pb0aia/cm/elcaset/el-end.html

Finland?

Really? I seem to remember reading an article in HiFi World magazine (circa 1995) which stated that the unsold Elcaset recorders were dumped en masse into the North Sea. 217.155.20.163 23:05, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Who knows what really happened to all of those units (might be true both ways) but see the above link (found now in the article references, too). It definitely documents that at least a sizable portion (about 2000) of them were auctioned off and the winner was a Finnish consumer electronic retailer which sold the units at an unprecedented bargain. --jibun_{≈παντα ρει≈} (keskustele!) 07:05, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Neutrality

This article definitely doesn't sound neutral. "...it was a very well-designed, innovative format -- unfortunately, one that nobody wanted to buy" alone shows that the author has put his opinions into the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xonybubba (talk • contribs) 04:52, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not all Elcaset machines were "heavy duty"!

Sony's "cheapest" machine EL-5 had two heads only - "erase" and "record/playback". It had only one motor for the entire tape transport.

The portable Sony EL-D8 had also only two heads. Nominally, it was a two motor mechanism. Practically, it was also a one motor transport. The second motor's solely purpose was to rewind or fast forward the tape (a very peculiar design).

The stationary decks (except probably the EL-4 with its mechanical keys for tape transport control) were prepared for remote control - but on the cheaper machines, it was optional.

See here: http://home.iae.nl/users/pb0aia/cm/elcaset/index.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.65.10.201 (talk) 15:43, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

RCA cartridge? Seriously?

"building on an idea introduced 20 years earlier in the RCA tape cartridge"

After WW II, many companies introduced a plethora of cartridge/cassette tape formats - for obvious reasons. If Techmoan didn't miss any, roughly a dozen...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3zPwkrNK-Q

So - the cartridge concept was ubiquitous, there were earlier formats where - also for obvious reasons - the recorder and not the cassette mechanism handled the tape during recording and playback. When Elcaset was introduced, the RCA system had been dead for 12 years.

The basic concepts - cartridge + tape threading in the machine - had been around and/or were plainly obvious.

So I doubt that RCA's failed format played any role in the conceiving of Elcaset... 92.72.69.84 (talk) 07:49, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]