Fashion magazines frequently choose a dowdy individual for a makeover. Demeanor, cosmetics and clothing turn a sister into a Cinderella. Philips played fairy godmother to its own compact cassette, ...

In a moment of weakness (and against my better judgement) I bought the DCC deck I've been coveting off of eBay. True to form the vendor charged me an arm and a leg (i.e. half the winning bid) for ...

Having a fondness for old and obscure audio and video media formats, [Techmoan] recently revisited the Philips Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) format introduced in 1992. Despite being billed as the ...

During the 1990s, music was almost invariably stored on CDs or cassette tapes. When the new millennium came around, physical formats became obsolete as music moved first to MP3 files, and later to ...

More than 100,000 Japanese braved three successive typhoons the second week of October to reach a building complex in Tokyo called Sunshine City. While storms raged without, within the 40th annual ...

Like many music junkies, Gene Bartholomew has spent thousands of dollars on compact discs. He estimates he has 3,000 in his personal collection. In the coming months, two major electronic ...

[url=http://arstechnica.co.uk/civis/viewtopic.php?p=31749667#p31749667:vgx7ws1y said: Hat Monster[/url]":vgx7ws1y]I'm not sure you can label Matsushita as "up and ...

DCC is a format that is long forgotten, but it absolutely demonstrates the extreme innovation that was around in the Nineties! For a long time in the eighties and nineties, the DAT recorder was the ...