Introduced by Philips in 1965, the "Compact Cassette ... As soon as commercial recordings on cassette began to proliferate, the audio cassette became the standard for music playback in vehicles.

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. From the '70s to the 2010s ...