February 6th, 2026
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Discovered in the Big Finish warehouse after 25 years: three boxes of early Doctor Who cassettes.
Available to order while stocks last from the Big Finish Store at www.ebay.co.uk
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Michael parsons
February 24th, 2026 - 7:16pmnot one to criticize but though happy about vinyl coming back cassettes even if bought brand new you can easily or could easily damage them if your pinch rollers and capstan is not clean they tangle so never want to see this format come back as for CDs never or have very little trouble with this format long live CDs in fact the replacement for cassettes should be the return of the mini discs
Daniel Seymour
February 7th, 2026 - 12:26pmDoes anyone still have a cassette player nowadays? I guess these are really for collectors to keep sealed. BTW Iike Shadow of the Scourge but happy with my download version.
Missyrules
February 7th, 2026 - 3:48pmThey are rising in popularity again. Why is beyond me. Cassette tapes were notoriously naff.
beef
February 9th, 2026 - 7:16ambecause anything old and inconvenient to use is now propped up as better
Nick
February 9th, 2026 - 6:35pmOohh Beef, that’s good news for us oldies then!
Babelbro
February 10th, 2026 - 12:20amMore than ever today technology’s subjective and personal. Some prefer the sound of Vinyl, or to watch films on a Projector instead of a tv, or to read real physical books instead of swiping on a tablet. Many today will even turn around and call physical media including CDs an inconvenience because of how easy streaming is (for now, imo.) but you get the jist;
One medium might be a pointless inconvenience to one person, but preferred by many others and cassette is no exception to that rule.
I’m no tech expert but Cassettes are mastered differently to a CD and Vinyl – I have one or two matching (mint quality) cassettes and cds from a couple of my favourite bands, audibly tape versions of an album can help bring together various instruments that may otherwise sound razor sharp and harsher against one another on a digital copy due to the sheer crispness fidelity (this is especially the case with 1990’s and 2000’s music CDs when pretty much all music mastering intentionally maxed out their waveforms *eugh* , hence ‘the loudness wars’ period).
Another reason I also love tapes is that similarly with VHS and film cameras, analogue technology simply gives me a break from what feels like digital 24/7 everywhere you look, hear and touch. Analogue feels like a breath of fresh air more than ever in 2026.
I think also there’s too much comparisons of analogue video being splashed on a modern flat screen, when analogue video, by definition was intended to be presented on an analogue CRT tv. Likewise if you threw a 4k film on a CRT you’ll lose every trace of it’s quality that is visible on a 4k tv. In a sense, similar also applies to audio, be it Vinyl / cassettes.
DeliveryRus
February 7th, 2026 - 9:35amMaybe time to get a new warehouse staff if there is stock sat there that long.
Will the tapes still have content on after that long?
The Monitor
February 7th, 2026 - 11:58amYes. I remember university professors saying VHS tapes would be reduced to static in 20 years. 30 years or more after release, my heavily played ex rental Revenge of the Cybermen played as well as the last of the Who VHS releases. I would argue VHS is technically more complicated than an a casette.
Peter
February 6th, 2026 - 6:58pm£24.99 each?! Having a giraffe! Should be 99p each more like.
JR
February 6th, 2026 - 11:11pmPeter, The Shadow of the Scourge should be free with a bonus tenner tucked inside to ease the pain of listening to it but The Holy Terror is a cleverly dark tale and easily worth, say, a fiver, assuming one is from the past and still in possession of a cassette player.