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 ...

Van Morrison never sounded better. I was listening to his recent album “Avalon Sunset” from a digital compact cassette (DCC) on the new Panasonic RQ-DP7 portable DCC player. This first DCC headphone ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A traditional cassette tape holds roughly 10 to 12 songs on each side, but 328 feet of this DNA cassette tape could hold the ...

It’s Weird ’90s Week on Stereogum. All week long we’re looking at the strangest musical moments and trends of the decade. Check out more here. The ’90s were the last gasp of a music industry coasting ...

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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 ...