Look at this piece of garbage!!!

http://www.fleetfarm.com/detail/fish.../0000000273567


God forbid they make something NEW that plays analogue stuff!!!

It's for dumb little 2 to 5 year old kids. Whaddya want?

Like the knockoff Tonka trucks only worse as it doesn't even serve the primary purpose of the original.
It won't make those kids any sharper, might even confuse them should they run across a real cassette recorder later in life.

Wow looks like a new version of the one my parents bought me in 1983. Of course I took it apart and connected it to a better, external speaker. I don't think anything I owned before age 10 actually survived fully intact.

Who really cares if it's real or not, it can play and record, no tape for little fingers to pull out and make a mess with. it's a toy!

Exactly.

Why start kids off with OUR nostalgia? Let them find their own things to be nostalgic about.

I am glad my dad didn't give me some lame Fisher Price Edison cylinders to play with, lol.

Word up, even though most things I use are from before my time.

Perhaps Fisher-Price should make a toy smartphone with a pre-cracked screen. It sure doesn't matter if that doesn't work, it would prepare them for modern technology.

Didn't these guys also make an ersatz B/W video recorder that produced grainy B/W pics ? Always wanted one of those- ran acrost an incomplete specimen in a garage sale setting in 1994. shoulda got it, but the gal I was with then would not have let me get it..

Yup...and it used cassette tapes... :yuck:

Oh my god. Whats next.A fake FP PXL2000 camcorder.

There was quite a lot of popularity of those by adults for a period. It created "artsy" films.

“Filmmakers love what they describe as Pixelvision’s dithering, a process designed to fill in the information between the pixels but resulting in unpredictable fluctuations in the image quality from frame to frame. Dithering, they say, calls attention to the properties of the recording medium in the same way that Jimi Hendrix’s use of feedback called attention to the properties of the electric guitar.”

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/ap...s-pixelvision/

The Art of Pixelvision: https://archive.org/details/artofpixelvision

They still are fairly expensive in the used market when in good condition.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro...p2045573.m1684

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I remember those video cameras, a friend of mine was a doctor's son had one. I remember it as being as being a piece of junk with a grainy black and white picture on a tiny 5" screen. I wonder how anyone possibly made anything good with one of those! Maybe will look up some videos for fun.

Kids love to hear thier own voices, and the user interface is pretty much universal, independent of type of device or media used for recording... looks like a fun and educational device to me. (and very inexpensive as well) :music:

jr

Well because ITS BETTER than the crap made now for one thing :)

It's worth showing to them anyway and if they take to it, party on. However, I think they should see the real thing instead of anything like this brand new low for China.

Also, to prevent the terrible twos from destroying tapes, just use the handyman's secret weapon. May as well secure the battery compartment while you're at it.

I have two PXL2000's here.My friend makes movies with his.

I remember the original versions of these. There was a bigger one where the cassette windows looked like eyes, in fact that one starred in the original Toy Story movie, I always wanted one of those. But I usually got other brand ones instead. I loved playing with cassette players as a kid. Didn't get a video camera until much later though I did borrow one sometimes.

Ooops, the one I was talking about was from Playskool:

http://www.retrothing.com/2012/01/pl...-recorder.html

I've seen them for sale a few times while in Vancouver. I've never seen the hipsters eat those things up with that kind of money.
Never in my life was I expecting that it was cheaper for me to buy an HVC Trinicon camera than one of those. Crazy, I tall ya!

Give the kids the real thing.Some of these seem to be reasonable priced.

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/fisher-price-cassette-player

Screw that fake piece of junk.

Word up!

Not only is the real thing better, it's probably cheaper in most cases. Even those willing to sacrifice quality to save a few bucks in the short run don't have an excuse for buying the most obvious fake I've seen that Chinese fat cats have had the nerve to dump on us.

Hard to wrap one's mind over a kiddee camcorder...W/THAT little "Playpretty", you had something that pretty much out classed even the mighty RCA..At least, up til Summer, 1956..

I agree.The American fat cats that back them up too.Maybe there will be a change of things soon.Thats all I can say on here.

At least they are honest it doesnt work right but really WHY ARE THEY SELLING IT LIKE THAT??