Anyone know what the thing is called that lets you play cd's into a cassette deck in a car?

[fragarific]

It plays the cd's in a portable player and connects the player to the cassette deck.

 

[pac1085]

no clue what there called...but k-mart sells em...lol

 

[lowtech1]

Could it be a CD WalkMan???

 

[BatmanNate]

Hey now, I'm a Dep. Manager at the Kmart electronics dep. Don't laugh. All it is is a 1/8th inch to cassette adapter, dunno what the official Rat Shack terminology is though....

 

[Windogg]

Yes, they sell adapters but they are really stopgap solutions. The sound quality will remain tape quality and the unit tends to jam on occasion. Sony makes a "Car Discman" that has a cassette like adapter that goes into the tape deck and a cable goes into the player. You play CDs off the Discman. Other drawbacks include power. You can only play as long as the unit has battery.

Windogg

 

[fragarific]

this looks like the culprit. thanks all!

car discman

<edit> I need everything, so this kit is kicken!

 

[The Stigenator]

I think you are thinking of the &quot;Cassette Adaptor&quot; for the cdplayer.
Radio Shack sells it for 20 bucks or so.

 

[Doggiedog]

Staples had the adapter set on sale online for 1 cent yesterday!

It's too late though too bad.

 

[PG]

Emerson makes a personal CD player with an FM transmitter. You just tune your car radio to an empty frequency between 88-92 and you can also tune the CD player's output frequency to match. You don't need a car kit and you don't need a car stereo with a tape player. A simple AM/FM radio is all that's needed. I don't know why only Emerson makes something like this.

The only place I've seen these in stores was in a Shopko. Shopko is only in MN, IA, and Wisconsin I think. These were on sale last week for $49 and I posted in Hot Deals, but nobody seemed to care. Oh well, I tried to help some people.

 

[Doggiedog]

Here is the SKU at Staples: 443258

I think they are sold out though. I didn't check.