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 ...

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 ...

[url=http://arstechnica.co.uk/civis/viewtopic.php?p=31749667#p31749667:vgx7ws1y said: Hat Monster[/url]":vgx7ws1y]I'm not sure you can label Matsushita as "up and ...

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, ...