The team settled on Compact Disc because it was felt it would remind people of the success of the Compact Cassette. In March 1979 Philips conducted a press conference to show off the audio quality of ...

The Philips EL 3300 cassette recorder of 1963 turned things around, with Philips debuting the world's first in-dash cassette player in 1968. ... Similar to the Compact Cassette, ...

During the '50s, Philips tried its hand at television manufacturing before carving out a role for itself in the Compact Cassette audio player space in the 1960s.

In the 1960s, Phillips introduced a compact cassette recorder, mainly for recording speech. ... They were invented by Dutch engineer Lou Ottens, the head of new product development at Philips.

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When the compact disc hit America in the 1980s, ... Lou Ottens, the engineering whiz at the Dutch electronics company Philips (he developed the compact cassette tape), ...

The compact audio cassette was of its day. Invented by Dutch electronics giant Philips back in the early 1960s the format peaked in the 1990s, ...

The rise of the compact disc and other threats. Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer, also oversaw the division at Philips company that developed the compact disc. And as this new format caught on the ...

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In 1968, just a few years after the compact cassette was invented by Dutch engineer Lou Ottens of the Philips Company, Steve Stepp and his father, Warren Stepp, a retired minister, started what ...

And he did, creating the world’s first compact cassette system, in which spools of magnetic recording tape were encased in a small plastic body. Instructions for the EL 3300 speak to Ottens’s ...