Prick up your ears. There`s plenty new to hear at the Consumer Electronics Show. You can audition new technologies and improved products from tape decks to speakers. Many people will leave McCormick ...

During the 1990s, music was almost invariably stored on CDs or cassette tapes. When the new millennium came around, physical formats became obsolete as music moved first to MP3 files, and later to ...

DCC is a format that is long forgotten, but it absolutely demonstrates the extreme innovation that was around in the Nineties! For a long time in the eighties and nineties, the DAT recorder was the ...

Philips N.V., a large Dutch electronics company, created a stir in October when it announced that it was developing a digital tape recorder that also will be able to play conventional analog cassettes ...

In a moment of weakness (and against my better judgement) I bought the DCC deck I've been coveting off of eBay. True to form the vendor charged me an arm and a leg (i.e. half the winning bid) for ...

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands — Philips NV said it will begin selling digital compact cassette music systems on Sept. 21 in Japan. The system, which is designed to be the successor to cassette systems ...

More than 100,000 Japanese braved three successive typhoons the second week of October to reach a building complex in Tokyo called Sunshine City. While storms raged without, within the 40th annual ...

NEW YORK — Polygram is gearing up for the September launch of a new digital compact cassette and expects it to penetrate the market two to three times faster than the hot-selling compact disc. “The ...

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In the days before CD, MP3 or iTunes, when Sony's Walkman was just about the only mobile music player worth having, hip young music lovers engaged in the painstakingly intricate process of recording a ...

For this week’s Hack Chat, we’re talking about reverse engineering the Digital Compact Cassette. Why should we care about an obsolete format that was only on the market for four years? Because if a ...