The trend for all things retro shows no sign of stopping with Y2K fashion, flip-phones and episodes of Friends as popular as ever. While record players and vinyl got their comeback, VHS, floppy discs ...

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CD and tape players used to get smaller every year. Here's why that's no longer the case.

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Of the vintage physical media formats making a comeback, CDs and vinyl records are the most popular, and for good reason. Vinyl is enticing and collectible, with limited-edition variants and colored ...

The appeal of this type of format-nostalgia is shared by We Are Rewind, the French company who (with a little help from a cabal of seasoned engineers who worked on portable cassette players back in ...

While it might not be accurate to say VHS is dead, it’s certainly not a lively format. It continues on in undeath thanks to dedicated collectors and hobbyists, some of whom may be tempted to lynch ...

Back in the 1990s, you could get a tape player shaped like a can of Coca Cola. [Simon the Magpie] scored one of these decks and decided to turn it into a tape echo effect instead. It didn’t work so ...