By 1970, the Sony U-Matic cassette appeared ... there were many attempts at repackaging surplus commercial video tape recorders for hobbyists as well as a few devices that showed up as kits ...

Although it used a rather complex transport mechanism, it was very gentle on the tape. After the cassette was inserted ... the going rate for tape recorders of the time, the rotating head created ...

Similarly, in the U.S. 2022 sales of albums on cassette tape jumped by 28% to 440,000. That's up from 343,000 in 2021, according to the U.S. 2022 Luminate Year-End Music Report. Before streaming ...