The convenience of the cassette’s small, portable format made it a hit among consumers in the 1980s. But the fact that you can easily erase and overwrite tape made them even more attractive.

The Gracioso cassette player retails for $36, and you can purchase the tape player on Amazon. It's a similar size to a classic Sony Walkman cassette player, being 3.6 x 1.4 x 5 inches, and ...

Van Morrison never sounded better. I was listening to his recent album “Avalon Sunset” from a digital compact cassette (DCC) on the new Panasonic RQ-DP7 portable DCC player. This first … ...

That said, expecting the Mixxtape to be the most convenient music player out there is probably missing the point entirely. As far as merging the classic and the modern, it looks like a pretty cool ...

If you used one of those cassette sized “tape adapters” (the ones that actually go into a tape player, and plug into your phone/mp3 player), they already have the magnetic head in the right place.

Both cassette players and commercial tapes are available for sale again Lori Grunin/CNET When CDs were introduced in the '80s, they were marketed as "indestructible." ...

Since the mid-80s, it has produced mechanisms—the assembly which transports, plays, and records the tape—for budget boomboxes, portable cassette recorders, and other low-cost devices.

He takes pride in having tried out over 1,000 different models, half of which are mini cassette players, and limited to perhaps one in Vietnam, or only a few in the world. He has about 100 models in ...

Cassette tapes were a major way of listening to (and recording) music througout the 1980s and 1990s and were in every hi-fi stereo, boom box, and passenger vehicle of the era. Their decline was lar… ...

Fast forward to 2010 and, suddenly, at least 25 small labels are producing and distributing music on cassette tapes. In an online age, the existence of these labels is puzzling.