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 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 fo ...

Fixing a DCC (Digital Compact Cassette) Deck Coredog64 Apr 10, 2006 Jump to latest Follow Reply ...

Van Morrison never sounded better. I was listening to his recent album “Avalon Sunset” from a digital compact cassette (DCC) on the new Panasonic RQ-DP7 portable DCC player.

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 s… ...

DCC just failed sooner. Most of the consumers went from Compact Cassete to CD-R to MP3, DCC and MiniDisc being little more than a footnote. Actually, MD was extremely popular in Japan for long.

Digital compact cassette: To be introduced by Philips this fall. The DCC, the same size as a conventional cassette and with 90 minutes of recording time, is expected to produce the same crystal ...

This state-of-the-art PCM/VCR combination may be supplanted in a year`s time by digital compact cassettes. In either case, once you`ve heard digital audio tape quality you may never want to return ...

Following a rapid succession of format introductions including record albums, cassettes, compact discs and still-nascent digital audio tape (DAT), the so-called mini disc faces the problem of ...

Advances in technology have since rendered the compact cassette mostly obsolete, yielding first to compact discs (CDs) and then digital file formats like MP3.

In the early 1990s, Philips of the Netherlands developed the Digital Compact Cassette tape format, which was designed to give CD-quality sound on standard magnetic tapes.

Cassettes peaked in the late 1980s, but the rise first of compact discs and then downloadable digital files eclipsed them, and by 2001, they accounted for only 4 percent of all music sales.