IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This Sony "Walkman" portable tape ...

While numerous streaming services make moving image entertainment available anytime and anywhere thanks to smartphones today, the media industry was quite different in the 1970s. In addition to radio ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. IFA has seen the debut of various new technologies and audio/visual products, such as tape ...

On May 7th, 1946, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded ’Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo’, the company that would later become Sony. After its beginnings making tape recorders and transistor radios, it rapidly ...

In today’s world, smartphones are the go-to devices for remote music listening. But decades ago, the iconic Sony Walkman was the preferred choice for listening through headphones to music on walks, ...

Move aside vinyl, another retro music format has spun back into the local spotlight. As emblematic to 1980s culture as the boom boxes and Sony Walkmans that played them, cassette tapes are back in ...

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 ...