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?

This compact and powerful streaming amplifier from Marantz offers high-quality audio and pairs with a wide range of speakers.

The Digital Compact Cassette, or DCC, was one such format. Released by Philips in 1992 as a replacement for the analog audio cassette, it failed to gain traction in the market and disappeared ...

For children of the '70s or '80s, cassettes had a large place in their lives. But those tapes, which have spent years languishing ...

The audio cassette format launched in the 1960s is experiencing a revival in 2024 and I have become something of a tape ...

This is the second entry of part 5 in a series of essays exploring and celebrating CTA’s and our industry’s first century of ...

Audiobooks allow readers to listen to a book rather than reading. This allows books to be read while doing other tasks, like driving or exercising.

005 percent total harmonic distortion (THD) with its digital inputs, according to Marantz — numbers the company claims are only found in much more expensive amplifiers. The amplifier also supports ...

Debuting as the Philips Compact Cassette in 1963 ... As an addendum to the lack of noise reduction, cassettes that include Dolby Digital encoding are usually marked on the cassette -- and none ...

Oddly, the digital camera was beaten to the market by a seemingly ... initially proposed the idea of a video cassette in 1964 ...

If your favorite old compact isn't on the list, be sure to chime in on the comments—after all, there were hundreds of good, small cameras released during the heyday of digital compacts.