The Cassette tape and cassette recorder came in '63 and meant that for the first time ever you could have portable music of your own choice.
And then twenty years later he created 'Disc technology' which gave us the C:D and the Laserdisk. The forerunner to what we now know as DVD.
He was also instrumental in bringing together Phillips, the Dutch company he worked for and Sony who were attempting something similar at the time so that discs for either audio or visual could be standardised.
Anyone who considered buying a Sony 2000 at the time would certainly have been grateful as they cost around £3,000 at the time !
@Picklebobble2 I remember the mini cd players, I think Sony released them. I nearly bought one because you could record with them too but the mp3 player came along and they disappeared into distant memory.
@BeerMonster You can't even get what would have been mid fi decks today,the transports are bad. The cassette was always an over-achiever after the introduction of better tape formulations and Dolby.
@BeerMonster Thank Henry Kloss ..he flew to England and convinced Dolby to make a consumer version of Dolby A,also the introduction of Chrome tape...he was kind of a loveable old duck ,his deck had one "true" VU meter and an add on mic pre amp that was really high quality!
@JaggedLittlePill I did the same with the UK top 40, trying to stop and start at exactly the right time. I wish I'd left it and recorded the dj too, for added nostalgia.
