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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back before all-digital music, back before the Digital Compact Cassette, back before even the Digital Audio Tape existed, there was a strange audio device that briefly captured the imagination of ...

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 ...

People of a certain vintage couldn’t help feel a twinge of sad nostalgia earlier this month with the news of the death of Lou Ottens, the inventor of the cassette. In the very early 1960s, when ...

The January 1993 issue of What Hi-Fi? proves to be a fascinating insight into the world of home entertainment, both then and now. Not only does it enthuse about an exciting new medium for music ...

The man who invented cassette tapes in 1963, which spawned the recording of countless mixtapes for music lovers, has died at age 94. Lou Ottens, while working with the Dutch company Royal Philips, ...