The 1,505-piece Soundwave set includes sound effects and Ravage and Laserbeak cassettes.

The Digital Compact Cassette, or DCC, was one such format. Released by Philips in 1992 as a replacement for the analog audio cassette, it failed to gain traction in the market and disappeared ...

There are two additional bits you won't find on an '80s tape player, though: a Bluetooth button and a USB-C charging port. This player uses a rechargeable battery rather than old-school AAs, and it ...

In the late 1960s, the Rolling Stones revitalized their sound with a few drug arrests and a compact cassette recorder.

The hard plastic case of the compact cassette. These things are really difficult to break, and I've even used cassettes melted in the sun, which have still played great.

DCC is a format that is long forgotten, but it absolutely demonstrates the extreme innovation that was around in the Nineties! For a long time in the eighties and nineties, the DAT recorder was the ...

A compact disc player, cassette player and a pool cue and case were reported stolen by a resident of the 400 block of Whitney Drive, police said.

The rise of the compact disc and other threats. Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer, also oversaw the division at Philips company that developed the compact disc. And as this new format caught on the ...

And he did, creating the world’s first compact cassette system, in which spools of magnetic recording tape were encased in a small plastic body. Instructions for the EL 3300 speak to Ottens’s ...

In 1968, just a few years after the compact cassette was invented by Dutch engineer Lou Ottens of the Philips Company, Steve Stepp and his father, Warren Stepp, a retired minister, ...

Before long, however, imitations of their compact cassette player began cropping up across the globe, most frequently in Japan. Ottens then made a decision that helped boost the format.