Sony followed suit with "Beta II", like VHS-LP at half the tape speed, i.e. three hours on a 90-minute cassette. The old recordings and the cassettes remained compatible.

There was a time when rewinding a movie tape was part of the experience. Before streaming, before DVDs, before even Blu-ray, ...

Of course, cassette tapes aren’t meant to be used in this way. ... a Blattnerphone steel-strip tape recorder at the BBC in 1937. Douglas Hallam, Jr., Public domain.

Self-taught tape recorder mechanic Mohammad Ashraf Matoo repairs a tape recorder at his shop in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) ...

He’s part of a small, dedicated community that believes cassette tapes are the best way to listen to and archive the Sufi music of Indian-controlled Kashmir, where music inspired by local and central ...

New Revox B77 MK III reel-to-reel tape recorder, and more cassette tape-based trickery. The new Revox B77 MK III might be the ultimate analogue flex. ... a wall-mounted cassette player that takes the ...

The humble cassette tape, once the world’s default portable music format, ... You can buy an Alice Cooper-branded reel-to-reel recorder for just €27,000. Tech; Record Players ... It also famously ...

In contrast to reel-to-reel tapes, cassettes were cheap, abundant, and accessible enough for the general user. In the first decade or so of cassette tapes, users were still confined to portable ...

As you can see, the best Sony Walkmans took many forms over the years. Though the product lineup started out as one that focused on cassette tapes, still others worked with CDs and MiniDisks.

IFA 2024: latest news from this year's tech show; IFA has seen the debut of various new technologies and audio/visual products, such as tape recorders and cassette players, TV technologies – from ...

In 1978, Sony launched the laptop-sized TC-D5 stereo cassette player. Sony's co-founder, ... twice as many as the monthly sales of the best-selling tape recorder in Japan.