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The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, [2] audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Dutch company Philips , the Compact Cassette was released in August 1963.
Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) A Digital Compact Cassette Digital, 1 ⁄ 8 inch wide tape, 1 + 7 ⁄ 8 in/s, introduced by Philips and Matsushita in late 1992, marketed as the successor to the standard analog compact cassette WAV (file format) Digital. Named after the waveform created by a sound wave. Dolby Digital Cinema Sound Digital.
Analog based . Cassette tape, a two-spool tape cassette format for analog audio recording and playback and introduced in 1963 by Philips; DC-International, a format that was created by Grundig after Phillips had abandoned an earlier format that was being created alongside the Compact Cassette
When St. Vincent announced an upcoming release last week, included as part of it was a 500-copy limited edition on cassette. In 2020, cassette sales were up 94.7% from the year before, as the ...
Lodewijk Frederik Ottens (21 June 1926 – 6 March 2021), known as Lou Ottens, was a Dutch engineer and inventor, best known as the inventor of the cassette tape, and for his work in helping to develop the compact disc. [1]
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 early 1980s, when the compact cassette, which pre-dated the 8-track system, surpassed it in popularity for pre-recorded music.
A typical late-model Philips Magnavox, VHS format VCR A close-up process of how the magnetic tape in a VHS cassette is being pulled from the cassette shell to the head drum of the VCR A videocassette recorder ( VCR ) or video recorder is an electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television or other AV ...
[23] [19] These batches were made large enough to fill the need of the industry for many years. [23] A second run was impossible, because chemists were unable to replicate the reference tape type formulation with proper precision. [23] From time to time, the IEC revised the set of references; the final revision took place in April 1994. [19]