Mr. Ottens, who died March 6 at 94, unleashed a sonic revolution with the Compact Cassette, which Philips unveiled at a Berlin radio exhibition in 1963.

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Audio Cassette Recorders A huge variety of cassette players and recorders were made over the years, both desktop and portable. On the right, the blue-gray Radio Shack and silver Sony Walkman ...

A Philips cassette tape is shown in 1965. Lou Ottens, who led the invention of the first cassette tape, has died at 94. Alfred Assmann/Picture Alliance via Getty Images hide caption ...

Believe it or not, the first CD player was released on October 1, 1982. ... in reference to Philips’s successful Compact Cassette format. On March 8, 1979, ...

Ottens became head of Philips' product development department in 1960, where he and his team developed the cassette tape. In 1963, it was presented at the Berlin Radio electronics fair and soon ...

Along with launching various radios, Philips has many audio firsts to its name – it launched the first personal cassette ...

Dutch electronics giant Philips perfected the design of the cassette in the 1960s. It was designed to be a new form of portable entertainment, launched into a market dominated by vinyl LPs and reel-to ...

The Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, Ottens died March 6, 2021, at the age of 94, according to an announcement issued by the Philips company. (Philips Company Archives via AP) ...

The portable cassette player was introduced to the world by Dutch electronics giant Philips in 1966, allowing radio broadcasts to be recorded on cassette tape without any cables or microphones ...

In April 1982 Philips showed off a production CD player for the first time. "From now on, the conventional record player is obsolete," said Lou Ottens. The first commercial CDs pressed were The ...

Lou Ottens unveiled the first compact cassette tape, built by his Philips design team, in 1963. Billions of cassettes were sold before he spearheaded a team that introduced the compact disc with ...