Inside a cassette is a long spool of plastic tape covered with a magnetic medium that holds the recording as analog magnetic ...

According to today’s New York Times, "Say So Long to an Old Companion: Cassette Tapes," the cassette tape is dead. Though long anticipated, the end came quickly. The cassette is survived by the CD ...

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 ...

One can explain the recent boom in vinyl record sales in terms that make sense to an audiophile: A vinyl record often sounds more nuanced than music in a compressed digital format. But the growth in ...

If you collect CDs and cassette tapes, or DVDs and Blu-rays, then shop these storage options for your growing collection. By Rudie Obias All products and services featured are independently chosen by ...

In the 1980s and 1990s, playing a cassette tape was one of the most common ways to enjoy music. It was small and cheap, so it was a good format for production companies to release their music on and ...

Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor who pioneered the compact disc and invented the cassette tape — the medium of choice for millions of homemade mix tapes — has died at a care facility in the Netherlands.