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2. Sharp Corporation - Wikipedia

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   The line was discontinued after 1981, but the Optonica line was again re-introduced in the late 1980s for a high end line of television receivers and higher quality mass market audio products such as VCRs, surround sound receivers, CD cassette boom boxes, and portable cassette players. The first wall-mountable TV was introduced by Sharp in 1992 ...

3. The 8 Best CD Players for Home, Office, or On the Go - AOL

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   In addition to a CD player, under the Quincy’s top lid is a retro three-speed (33.3, 45, 78 rpm) record player. You also get a cassette player, a USB port to jack in a thumb drive filled with ...

4. Optonica - Wikipedia

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   Optonica amplifier (SM-3636) and tuner (ST-3636) from 1978. The Optonica brand was created and first launched by Sharp of Japan in 1975 to compete in the high-end audio market along with established brands such as Sansui Electric, Sony, Panasonic, Sanyo, Yamaha, Nakamichi, Onkyo, Fisher Electronics, Technics (brand), Pioneer Corporation, Kenwood Corporation, JVC, Harman Kardon and Marantz.

5. List of compact disc player manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   CD players are often a part of home stereo systems, car audio systems, and personal computers. They are also manufactured as portable devices. Modern units can play other formats in addition to PCM audio coding used in CDs, such as MP3, AAC and WMA. DJs often use players with an adjustable playback speed to alter the pitch and tempo

6. 8-track cartridge - Wikipedia

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   The 8-track tape (formally Stereo 8; commonly called eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, and eight-track) is a magnetic-tape sound recording technology that was popular [2] from the mid-1960s until the early 1980s, when the compact cassette, which pre-dated the 8-track system, surpassed it in popularity for pre-recorded music.

7. Videotape format war - Wikipedia

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   "VCR"-format cassettes in case (left) and on own (right). A full-size CD is shown for scale. Size comparison between a Betamax cassette (top) and a VHS cassette (bottom) The videotape format war was a period of competition or "format war" of incompatible models of consumer-level analog video videocassette and video cassette recorders (VCR) in the late 1970s and the 1980s, mainly involving the ...