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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Louis Ottens — the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape — has died at the age of 94. Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad first reported that Ottens died March 6th in Duizel, the ...