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A famous person once said that the more available you make yourself; the more available everyone will expect you to be. Over the last few years, a private life has become a thing of the past as the world has become smaller, but do we all really want this constant demand on our time. Can you remember how you felt the last time you couldn’t get hold of someone on their cell phone; did you get annoyed? They are supposed to be a convenience but have become a burden to many who do not understand this and refuse to ever switch them off, taking them wherever they go. Most of the time the calls are quite trivial and conversations that could have waited until the following day.

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If you look around you it would appear that many people are oblivious to their location and others around them. Initially it was in the area of instant business that the cell phone showed the greatest promise and even now, the vast majority of private owners use only a fraction of the phones potential. The biggest problem lies with those individuals who want to be available twenty four hours because they can never relax.

Since the advent of cell phones most people have forgotten how to be polite to others and don’t care how their phone can disturb people around them. There doesn’t seem to be anywhere where you can be free of this almost constant intrusion. It is impolite but an indication of how society has changed since the cell phones introduction.

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If you’ve ever seen those celebrity match-ups with Superman vs Batman and the like, digital telephone recorders vs cassette telephone recorders will sound familiar. If not, you’re about to see a non-celebrity match-up of two recording devices. Not the most exciting lineup, but Cher and Madonna were unavailable.

Recording Time:
In our first contest, we’ll compare the recording capacity of a cassette vs digital phone call recorder. It’s a knockout for digital, which can hold dozens or hundreds of conversations. Cassette, on the other hand, staggers under two hours of conversation on a 120-minute cassette (60 minutes per side).

Duplication:
Ouch. Need to copy a cassette? First, very carefully preserve your master, and record only from the master. Copies of a copy will sound horrible, and the master will wear with time. Digital copies? No problem. Duplicate the original file endlessly with no loss of quality.

Sound Quality: You may not notice much difference in the quality between cassette and digital, actually. The cassette may leave a slight hiss on the recording, but some cassette recorders have pretty good quality. Let’s call this one a draw.

Size: If you need to carry your cassette phone recorder, get a microcassette, which is the smallest available. On the other hand, you could go digital and get a recorder the size of a cigarette lighter. Oooh. Another one to the digital side, though admittedly size is probably not a huge factor for most people.

Archiving: This is the knockout round for digital. If you’re planning to archive your cassette recordings, you should set aside a lot of room for the tapes. Archiving digital files is simply a matter of setting up a new folder on your computer. Pow.

It looks like the match goes to the digital telephone recorders. Seriously, if you are currently using a cassette recorder and want a lateral transfer, that’s fine, but if you’re upgrading, you’ll want to switch to digital for a number of reasons.