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XXXI - Number 3/August 16, 1969 Publication Office / 1780 Broadway, New York, New York 10019 / Telephone JUdson 6-2640 / Cable Address: Cash Box, N. Y. GEORGE ALBERT President and Publisher MARTY OSTROW Vice President IRV LICHTMAN Editor in Chief EDITORIAL MARV GOODMAN Cash Box Assoc. Editor JOHN KLEIN BOB COHEN BRUCE HARRIS Self- Service EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS MIKE MARTUCCI ANTHONY LANZETTA Tape Guide ADVERTISING BERNIE BLAKE Director of Advertising ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES STAN SOIFER, New York BILL STUPER, New York HARVEY GELLER, Hollywood Much of the confusion facing first - 8 -TRACK CARTRIDGES: Using the WOODY HARDING unit tape consumers lies in the area same speed and thickness of tape Art Director of purchaser education. To assist as its predecessor, 8 -track cartridges a major advantage in that a COIN MACHINE & VENDING store -owners, merchandising outlets include ED ADLUM and the prospective buyer himself, sensing device enables the tape to General Manager Cash Box offers this information chart progress from one track to the next CAMILLE COMPASIO, Chicago as a self -assistance guide. Posted in automatically. Using narrower tracks, LISSA MORROW, Hollywood stores, the sheet enables consumers the stereo -8 package divides its choose the configuration that best pre-recorded album into 4 programs. CIRCULATION to THERESA TORTOSA, Mgr. suits their needs and provides a guide- Once mounted, the tape will playback line for sales personnel. continually. In addition, the listener CHICAGO HOLLYWOOD from four programs at any ILE COMPASIO HARVEY GELLER REEL-TO-REEL: Generally considered may select E. Madison St. 6290 Sunset Blvd. the basic tape system, open reel given moment. Used almost entirely sicago 2, III. Hollywood, Calif. 90028 have been available for 14 years as a playback medium, 8 -track cart- (312) FI 6-7272 Phone: (213) 465-2129 tapes as a pre-recorded music medium ridges are the leading tape form in ENGLAND (and longer for blank tape recording sales mainly because of the configura- DORRIS LAND for play. 3 Cork Street purposes). Consumers are offered two tion's advantage automobile London, Wl, England basic recording -playing speeds of The form, however, is extremely diffi- Tel: 01.734-2374 3-3/4 inches per second (ips) and cult to record with and, like 4 -track, 7-'/2 ips; but highest -fidelity 15 ips is mainly a playback medium. Eight - ITALY HOLLAND and 1-'/8 ips speed for voice recording track cartridges offer the largest PANVINI ROSATI PAUL ACKET amount of pre-recorded material. ria are also available. The least conven- Passarella 2 Theresiastraat 59-63 Bilan (Italy) it requires The Hague ient tape configuration since CASSETTE: Developed in the late '50's Tel: 790990 Tel: 837700 care, open reel threading and greater as a two -reel system which eliminated GERMANY systems carry advantages of selectiv- SONDOCK SCANDINAVIA threading, the cassette is now one of Rops Strasse 1 and mater- SVEN G. WINQUIST ity. Tape thickness, length the fastest growing of the cartridge sich, Germany Kaggeholmsvagen 48, ials enable the user to record up to fel: 326410 Stockholm-Enskede, tape configurations. It is the smallest 12 hours on a single reel and choose BRAZIL Sweden, Tel: 59.56 85 and lightest of tape packages and uses )RO FRAZAO 122 40 a quality to match his needs or pocket- thinner, non -lubricated tape which /ASCONCELOS is fairly Caneca, book. Pre-recorded product 11, Apt 13 AUSTRALIA runs at 1-'/8 ips. Though the best sell- aulo, areas. S.P., Brazil RON TUDOR limited in pop & contemporary ing form in Europe, cassettes trail 239.40 18 8 Francis St., 4 -TRACK CARTRIDGE: 4 -track tapes Heathmont, Victoria in sales behind 8 -track in the U.S. IRGENTI NA invented basically for background JEL SMIRNOFF Tel: 870-5677 were Ability of cassettes as a recording afaela these 3978 MEXICO & automotive use. Unlike reels, medium, improvements in fidelity uenos Aires SALVADOR ARREGUIN an endless loop cl: tapes are made up of pre-recorded 69.1538 ANTONIO SENS and growing availability of enclosed in a casing. Once CANADA Tiber 100 -7 y 8 Pisos completely cassettes now point to a solid growth .1T GREALIS Mexico 5, D.F. mounted, the tape is set in motion at Tel: 25-39.52 11-62-96 in this area. RPM 3-3/4 ips. Though Bayview a constant speed of Ave. JAPAN industry's answer to 17, for, 4 -track PLAYTAPE: The tape Ontario Adv. Mgr. easy to handle and care 416) 389-2166 Playtape is a two -track SHOICHI KUSANO system requires that programs be re- to singles, Editorial Mgr. 3-3/4 ips with 4 FRANCE other (the sec- system operating at MORIHIRO NAGATA corded one above the TOPHE IZARD a The 4.66 monaural tunes on cartridge. Octave Higfashi-Olzumi ond channel is activated by the opera- Feuillet Neirimaku behind others since I Tel: 870-9358 recording form has lagged Tokyo tor). This makes amateur difficult and limits the configuration only one company is duplicating $25 per music for pre-recorded sales, but an liOk RATES year anywhere in the U.S.A. to playback -only purposes. Availabil- Box, 1780 Secoyidb5class Cash Broadway, New York, enabling playtape to hook postage paid at Hartford, ity of selections is more limited in adapter Conn. 06105 systems might increase 1969 by in the other into 8 -track The Cash Box Publishing this configuration than red,Copyright under Co., Inc. 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