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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The giants of consumer electronics are once again forcing Americans to divine the future of audio technology.In the 1970s, the battle was between the 8-track and the smaller cassette still used widely ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sony, as one of the biggest and most successful electronics and technology companies in the world, is a household name. That name has, in time, become synonymous with excellence in everything from ...

[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 ...