1.   The aid that we are most likely to use for the same reasons as video is the audio tape or cassette recorder.

2.   Plug the microphone into your video cassette recorder.

3.   Cassette recorders cannot rival the sound quality of CDs.

4.   Another colleague handed him a Sony cassette recorder bought with donations from staff members.

5.   According to people who have used ReplayTV, it is a quantum leap ahead of the video cassette recorder and is remarkably user-friendly.

6.   But what if consumers adapt to digital television recording systems as quickly as they did to video cassette recorders?

7.   Days have been spent on bits of a suitcase, charred clothes and the cassette recorder believed to have had the bomb inside.

8.   DVDs are expected to eventually replace video cassette recorders and CD-ROMs used in multimedia computers.

9.   For recording long speeches, an old-fashioned analogue cassette recorder is probably more efficient.

10.   For instance, corrugated boxes -- which pack televisions, personal computers and video cassette recorders -- are increasingly more expensive to manufacture.