"A brief history" ... Literally one of the longest and most well researched videos of cassette history on KZfaq

After my father passed away more than 15 years ago we had to clean out his garage. We found loads and loads of audiocassettes, 8 tracks and a few records. I threw out the damaged 8 tracks and records. Fortunately the audiocassettes survived. A few tapes were unlabeled and I didn’t want to throw them out. I was curious as to what was recorded on them. When I played one of the tapes. I found out that it was a recording of my parents speaking on the phone. They used to have the type of voicemail machine that would record on full-size audio cassettes. So they accidentally recorded one of their phone conversations. I still have the audiocassette and will treasure it always. It allow me to glimpse into the past and it was made possible by the audiocassette.

I'm very late to the game here, but, as a 66-year old man, I thought I'd give you my first-hand thoughts on cassette. I gravitated to cassettes as soon as a viable car cassette deck became available in the early 70's. In fact, contrary to most/all of my peers, I opted for cassette in my car when all of them were using 8-tracks. They thought I was crazy. But I early on grasped the value of being able to record my album collection and enjoy it on the road. And this brings me to my bigger point... I love music - high-quality music. I preferred in those days to listen to LPs (vinyl) and did so at home. The ability to record these albums to tape did two things: 1) it allowed me to take my music with me, albeit at a somewhat lessened sonic quality, and 2) it allowed me to copy LPs I'd purchased, thereby allowing me to use the tape and minimize needle wear on my beloved albums. Consequently, many/most of my old, cherished albums from the late-60's through the 70's and early 80's are still in pristine condition. THIS was the real value of compact cassettes for me. Of course, CDs changed all of that. And now MP3 files and streaming rule the day. Nonetheless, I keep the turntable and the tape deck warmed up, exercising them regularly. By the way, my first home cassette unit was manufactured by Norelco (yes, THAT Norelco), which was a subsidiary of Phillips. I still recall the purchase of the first auto-reverse automobile cassette deck that was available for sale, at least in my small town. It was a sleek Pioneer unit and it cost me a fortune, at least it seemed so to a 19-year old in 1975. That cassette deck destroyed many of my cherished tapes, pulling tape out of the cassette and wadding it up in the machine. It was a hateful, wretched piece of hardware. Happily, auto-reverse technology got better in a hurry and life got better. Thank you for this informative segment. I truly enjoyed it. Steve

Here after the sad passing on of Lou Ottens a brilliant Engineer! His legacy will live on forever!

Sony walkman is dope 😍😍👏

This is some quality content!

Lou ottens’s inventions of the cassette and compact disc are by far the most practical formats for home and portable use.

Great info! Long live cassette tapes!

Still love compact cassettes & players in 2021.

What an incredible breakdown, seriously blown away I hope you still keep making videos I watch all of them 🔥

This was a little too good. I love it :)

Your videos amazing. I love your content and i learn Sound selection really.

RIP Ottens

Side A - simple and humble thank you ? Flip this tape over to Side B and it will really say how much I value this piece of history

Cassette is having the greatest musical impact on me.

Bruh you are making top tier content man. You really painted a vivid picture with your frankly superb writing. It does sound kinda creepy without background music tho.

Great video - thanks!

Awesome video, thank you for making it.

R.I.P. Lou Ottens

Super super super 😊😊😊

Greay!!!

Guardians of the Galaxy was one of the many big things that restarted cassette culture! the only thing that's holding it back is the lack of high-quality cassette decks and etc like cassette players, and companies have not been able to and yet to match the amazing ones like those from the 80s and 90s! Including portable cassette tapes however some companies like 'dirt tapes' (who also sell amazing Italian albums and such) were very few who were able to make an actual decent portable cassette player not the best in the world but great quality for something that not many companies were able to pull off in the present day! As a Gen Z I'm proud to be a part of the culture as I have a boombox able to play cassette tapes! I also got a copy of an album for Guardians of the Galaxy awesome mix vol 1. Tape like that from the movie which you can buy from ama'zon!

Thank you

Cool

rip Lou Ottens.

hair it goes

how dont you get more viewssss wtf

It seems Philips got royally screwed out of the cassette technology by Sony, who went on to develop probably one of the top 5 most iconic devices of the 20th Century. Hopefully, they didn't get fooled twice with the compact disc.

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I enjoy your videos, please expand to other genres than rap however

MGSV walkwan😎

*rehd*

'About 2 inches a second' ? With no extra effort you could rephrase it to 'One and three quarter inches a second'

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bogus isn't perspective fraudulent bogus is timing

What's this terrible narrator? Must be an AI voice. Unbearable!