Tag: CASSETTE

Like the eight-track before it, the cassette tape is riding off into the sunset -- just not in a car. According to The New York Times, no 2011 model vehicles manufactured or sold in the U.S. will feature a cassette player as a standard feature or as part of an extra package. The Lexus SC 430 will go down in history as the last car packaged with a factory tape deck. The deck won't be placed in a ...

After 31 years and over 200 million units sold, Sony is officially putting the cassette model Walkman out to pasture. Introduced in 1979, the portable tape player defined the following 10-plus years of mobile music playback. It was even a leader in the era of optical media, with its Walkman line of portable CD players eventually known as Discman. But in the era of the iPod, the brand name has ...

In a sure attempt to make us all feel prematurely old, BBC Magazine has announced that today is the 30th anniversary of the Sony Walkman. If that fact alone doesn't have you clamoring for the prune juice, freelance BBC writer and Scottish 13-year-old Scott Campbell's retro-review of the classic gadget surely will. BBC Magazine asked the Aberdeenshire student to carry the "cumbersome" gadget ...

Despite the current recession, some companies and industries remain not only unaffected by discerning shoppers, they're actually thriving. One such industry forging through the difficult economic landscape might come as a complete shock to many consumers, though. Cassette tapes, which many people gave up for dead years ago, still appeal to many consumers, and their sales have actually increased ...

Analog music... Consider this the ultimate pimp slap... Contexture Design, a Vancouver-based company, has created an iPod Nano case made out of recycled cassette tapes. Daaaamn, '80, you just got plaaaayed... We hadn't even seen a cassette tape in five years when we stumbled across this retro gem. The Nano gently snuggles into the remodeled Maxell cassette, providing protection to your pricey ...

One music retailer in California has cornered the music cassette sales market. Big deal, you say? Well, it is when you consider that, in jail, digital music players are useless and CDs are dangerous contraband. But, for some reason, cassette tapes and players are allowed, which means that millions of people in this country are forced to use an outdated method of music distribution that many ...

Many of us have piles of cassettes laying around -- relics of days in which you expressed love by way of the mix tape and in which "stealing music" meant dubbing a friend's copy of 'Night Moves.' But, the rise of the digital revolution has relegated these magnetic mementos to storage bins under our beds. Sometimes, though, a little bit of nostalgia takes hold and listening to those old ...