In fact, at the time, portable tape recorders were being marketed ... Developed totally independently of the Phillips cassette we know and love, the SANYO cassette was two reels of tape stacked ...

Many tape recorders such as this Sanyo cassette deck had significant switches to repurpose parts of their circuit between play and record. tony_duell, CC BY 2.0. The recording and playback heads ...

Be warned, vintage videophiles: Japan’s Funai Electric, a company that claims to be the last manufacturer of videocassette recorders ... recent months, the cassette tape—has enjoyed, thanks ...

Funai Electric, the only remaining manufacturer of VCRs, has been producing them in China for Sanyo - which sold ... of VHS rival Betamax video cassette tape recorders in 2002 and stopped ...

Funai sold VCRs under the more familiar Sanyo brand in China ... stopping production of its recorders in 2002. Beta-format VCRs were required to play or record such tapes. DVDs and Blu-Rays ...