This is where Digital Compact Cassette sweeps into view, in 1992, as a joint venture between Phillips and Matsushita. You could absolutely see why Phillips would want to try this. They were behind the ...

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 ...

And it wasn’t simply ancient versus modern: Sony’s MiniDisc was up against another global giant, as the Philips digital compact cassette tried to offer the best of both worlds with backwards ...

At its peak in 1989, the cassette tape was shifting 83 million units per year in the UK alone. Despite having been superseded in functionality first by the compact disc (CD) and then the digital ...

For a middle-school music-appreciation class in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in the late nineteen-seventies, our teacher asked each of us to bring in a piece of recorded music to play on the ...

Some people may be surprised to learn that cassette tapes are even still a thing. It’s been a rocky road for the medium over the decades. The industry took a hit when the compact disc came along. And ...