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P100, a new portable cassette player. It has some modern features to please modern listeners, such as Bluetooth, a USB Type C ...
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.
We Are Rewind delighted us at CES 2025 with its rechargeable cassette player and recorder, and now you can get your hands on one. The EDITH WE-001 cassette player is available now for £129 / $159 ...
Swedish electronics wizard Love Hultén has created the bespoke C-52, a wall-mounted cassette player that takes the guts of a Sony Walkman WM-EX655 and blends it with a bespoke handcrafted tape storage ...
Gracioso Portable Cassette Player Recorder Converter,Cassette to MP3 via SD Card, Walkman Cassette Tape Player with 1000mah Rechargeable Battery,Built-in Microphone&Speaker,Headphone Jack,16GB SD Card ...
In the first decade or so of cassette tapes, users were still confined to portable recorders or expensive home stereos. However, that all changed in 1979 when Sony introduced the Walkman. The Sony ...
The TPS-L2, later called the Walkman TPS-L2, was the first-ever personal stereo cassette player that was available for purchase. It was first launched in Japan on July 1, 1979, and later in the United ...
Retro-tech is having a major moment. Transparent, see-through gadgets are coming back. Cassette tape sales have increased nearly 490% since 2015. Analog alarm clock sales are surging.
When it comes to Sony and its failed formats, there's one that stands above the rest in terms of importance — the Betamax home videotape system. Though not the first time that videotape was ...
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 early ...
The Sony Walkman WM-AF59 combined auto-reverse cassette playback with an integrated AM/FM radio tuner. As a sports model, it offered waterproofing and was rated for 7 hours of playback using two ...
According to research by The British Phonographic Industry, sales of cassette tapes have risen for 10 consecutive years, touching a 20-year peak in 2022 with annual sales of 195,000 units.