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 ...

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 ...

Fashion magazines frequently choose a dowdy individual for a makeover. Demeanor, cosmetics and clothing turn a sister into a Cinderella. Philips played fairy godmother to its own compact cassette, ...

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 ...

The humble cassette seems to be suddenly cool again. What’s driving the craze? And is it a full-blown revival?

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 ...

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 ...

Meanwhile, cassettes break and jam quite easily. Choosing a particular song might involve several minutes of fast forwarding ...

[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 ...