For those of us who lived in the capitalist west during the Cold War, there remains a fascination to this day about the Other Side. The propaganda we were fed as kids matched theirs in describing the ...

If you ever made – or listened to – a mixtape, please press the pause button for a few moments to mark the passage of Lou Ottens, the engineer who oversaw the development of the cassette tape. The ...

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When the engineers at Phillips introduced the first audio cassette recorder in 1962, they couldn’t possibly have imagined where the next three decades would take the fledgling tape medium. Originally ...

Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, has died at the age of 94, his family has confirmed to CNN. They said the inventor died at his home in Duizel, the Netherlands, on Saturday. His ...

The above contraption may look like the kind of cassette player bygone teens used to use to create mix tapes, but it's not -- it's a Raspberry Pi-powered Spotify speaker with NFC-based playlists. Its ...

Sony announces end of production of Betamax cassettes for March next year, 40 years after its introduction and 28 years after losing format war to VHS Sony has announced that in March next year it ...

Many people still crave the old analogue musical sound and feel that it made for a richer auditory experience than digital music. The same goes with recording professionals who have to tape interviews ...

Teac Japan announced the LP-R550 today [JP], a kind of Swiss Army knife for audio freaks. Buyers get a turntable, a cassette player/recorder, a CD player/recorder and a PLL synthesized AM/FM stereo ...

A digital voice recorder blends the portability of a cassette recorder with the convenience of digital storage, making it easy to transfer recordings from the device onto a computer for immediate use ...

TASCAM promises a 4db sound increase in comparison to the regular Type II cassettes, low distortion and “unmatched musical clarity” when used in tandem with the goundbreaking Portastudio cassette ...