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<p>Audio cassette tape inventor Lou Ottens dies aged 94</p><div class="YVNWozkg" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape, has died aged 94.</p><div class="SB8jP8mp" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>An estimated 100 billion cassette tapes have been sold around the world since they were introduced in the 1960s.</p>
<p>Ottens&#8217; invention transformed the way people listened to music, and there has even been a resurgence of the cassette in recent years.<br />
The engineer died in his hometown of Duizel last weekend, his family announced on Tuesday.</p>
<p>The BBC reports that Ottens became head of Philips&#8217; product development department in 1960, where he and his team developed the cassette tape.</p>
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<p>In 1963, it was presented at the Berlin Radio electronics fair and soon became a worldwide success.</p>
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Ottens struck a deal with Philips and Sony that saw his model confirmed as the patented cassette, after a number of Japanese companies reproduced similar tapes in a number of sizes.</p>
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<p>On the 50th anniversary of its creation, he told Time magazine that it was a &#8220;sensation&#8221; from day one.</p>
<p>image captionBillions of cassette tapes have been sold around the world since their invention in the 1960s</p>
<p>Ottens was also involved in the development of the compact disk, and more than 200 billion of those have been sold worldwide to date.</p>
<p>In 1982, when Philips showed off a production CD player, Ottens said: &#8220;From now on, the conventional record player is obsolete&#8221;.</p>
<p>He retired four years later. When asked about his career, he said his biggest regret was that Sony and not Philips had created the iconic cassette tape player, the Walkman.<br />
Cassette tapes have experienced an unlikely surge in popularity in recent years. A number of artists including Lady Gaga and The Killers have released their music on them.</p>
<p>According to the Official Charts Company in the UK, the sale of cassettes in the first half of 2020 increased by 103% compared to the same time period the previous year.<br />
And in the US, according to Nielsen music, sales of cassette tapes grew by 23% in 2018 compared with the previous year.</p>
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