From the shelves of Urban Outfitters to the celebratory Cassette Store Day, tapes are in the middle of a renaissance. But the return of the humble cassette isn’t just hipster nonsense – they’ve ...

My first car was a silver 1990 Buick Park Avenue handed down from my grandmother, and like all early '90s cars, it came equipped with a tape deck. It always had a cassette loaded. Most were homemade: ...

At the International Radio Exhibition in 1963 in Berlin, it was declared a marvel of sound technology. From dictating texts to making music mix tapes, the Compact Cassette was everywhere. A look back.

The first obituaries for cassette tapes appeared more than 20 years ago when CDs hit the market. Sales of music tapes plummeted from 442 million in 1990 to about 700,000 last year, according to the ...

Original blank cassettes from the late 1980s and early 1990s are now fetching up to £22.50 each on internet auction sites Credit: Photo: GETTY Demand for blank audio cassettes has soared as music fans ...

Sales of audio cassettes are dwindling, but what use is there for the estimated 500 million tapes gathering dust? Cassette tapes were once at the cutting edge of personal music collections, offering ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

Illegal music sharing wasn’t always a digital issue. Before MP3s, cassettes were the definitive peer-to-peer, musician-to-fan music- sharing format. In the early 1980s, major record labels saw home ...

A 1/8" inch, analog audio tape format that was widely used for music distribution and home recording. In the past, millions of pre-recorded and blank cassettes were sold each year; however, sales ...

Some people say I cling too much to the past, but recently I abandoned my broken video at an electrical recycling centre, and if that’s not proof of being able to move on, I don’t know what is. When I ...