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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What Hi-Fi? January 1993 Back Issues The January 1993 issue of What Hi-Fi? proves to be a fascinating insight into the world of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Philips NV, the Dutch electronics company that created the cassette tape, announced yesterday that it is developing a digital tape recorder that also will be able to play conventional analog cassette ...

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 ...

Philips NV, the Dutch electronics company that created the cassette tape, announced Monday that it is developing a digital tape recorder that also will be able to play conventional analog cassette ...

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 ...