THE HAGUE (AFP) — Tributes rolled in Friday after Dutch engineer Lou Ottens, credited with inventing the audio cassette tape and helping create the compact disc, died at the age of 94. Created by ...

Cassette tapes sales are back in fashion, with sales reportedly at their highest in more than 15 years, with annual growth outpacing even vinyl’s resurgence. To celebrate, tape manufacturer ...

SHIMA, Mie -- Radio-cassette players and cassette tapes were inarguably must-have items for youthful music fans in the 1970s and '80s. However, the dominance of digital formats has driven cassettes to ...

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Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, the medium of choice for millions of bedroom mix tapes, has died, said Philips, the company where he also helped develop the compact disc. Ottens ...

When Taylor Swift’s releases her new album, “Life of a Showgirl,” in October, it can be heard on the usual places, including streaming, vinyl and…cassette tape? The cassette tape was once one of the ...

TASCAM has introduced a new line of analog cassette tape. You read that right. It’s been a long time since we got a press release about a new line of cassettes, but TASCAM says “many aspiring and ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

BBC Radio 3's Late Junction’s Casseptember season will explore how the arrival of the cassette was a watershed moment in the democratisation of audio culture. In August, 1963, the first compact ...

The inventor of the CD and cassette tapes has passed away. Lou Ottens, who is credited with not only inventing the cassette tape but also helping develop the CD, died at his home in the Netherlands ...

Factory audio equipment was frighteningly expensive in the old days. Even in 1983, you'd pay big money for a terrible-sounding factory radio; for example, a new '83 Chevy Cavalier could be had with ...