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  2. Cassette deck - Wikipedia

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    A cassette deck is a type of tape machine for playing and recording audio cassettes that does not have a built-in power amplifier or speakers, and serves primarily as a transport. It can be a part of an automotive entertainment system, a part of a portable audio system or a part of a home component system .

  3. 8 mm video format - Wikipedia

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    Early Video8 camcorders used mono AFM sound, but this was later made stereo. This cost less than including 8mm's optional digital stereo audio track. Linear audio did have the advantage that (unlike either AFM system) it could be re-recorded without disturbing the video, doing this in 8mm required a deck that supported digital audio.

  4. Nakamichi - Wikipedia

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    The user would use this function (activated by an "Auto Cal" button) to optimize the deck to a specific brand of tape to get best recording results from every cassette. [4] Hence the 1000ZXL and 700ZXL were known as computing cassette decks. Also offered was a third less costly deck the 700ZXE auto tuning cassette deck.

  5. 8-track cartridge - Wikipedia

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    The 8-track tape (formally Stereo 8; commonly called eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, and eight-track) is a magnetic-tape sound recording technology that was popular [2] from the mid-1960s until the late 1980s, when the compact cassette, which pre-dated the 8-track system, surpassed it in popularity for pre-recorded music. [3] [4] [5]

  6. Videocassette recorder - Wikipedia

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    Philips N1500 video recorder from the early 1970s. In 1970, Philips developed a home video cassette format specially made for a TV station in 1970 and available on the consumer market in 1972. Philips named this format "Video Cassette Recording" (although it is also referred to as "N1500", after the first recorder's model number). [19]

  7. File:Dolby subcircuit, Yamaha K-340 cassette deck.jpg

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    Yamaha K-340 cassette deck (Euro market model. IMO it's the same as K-400 in North America). Dolby subcircuit. Yamaha has used all sorts of Dolby ICs - Signetics/Philips, Hitachi, but mostly Sony. This is a rare example of a Panasonic Dolby chip in a Yamaha.

  8. D-2 (video) - Wikipedia

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    Ampex created the first D-2 video machine, the ACR-225 commercial spot player [2] working with Sony, who had done some early research into composite digital video, [3] as a cost-effective solution for TV broadcasters with large investments in composite analog infrastructure such as video routers and switchers, since it could be inserted into existing analog broadcast facilities without ...

  9. Reel-to-reel audio tape recording - Wikipedia

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    Mission of Burma member Martin Swope played a reel-to-reel tape recorder live, either playing previously recorded samples at certain times or recording part of the band's performance and playing it back either in reverse or at different speeds. When the band re-formed in 2002, audio engineer Bob Weston took over Swope's role at the tape deck.