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? Because if a ...
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? Because if a ...
The rise and fall of the digital compact cassette remains a salutary lesson for tech titans—it shows how you can get nearly everything right, and yet still fail badly. Like Britpop, whose 1993-1996 ...
Video formats have changed drastically over the years, but many people still have valuable memories stored on older videotapes. One common format is 8mm video cassettes, which were popular for home ...
In an era of digital music downloads, the old-school, low-tech cassette tape has spun into a successful business model for a Fullerton record shop and music label – so much so that the company has ...
Compared to the audio quality of digital files and CDs, analog cassette tape was kind of awful. And as YouTube’s Kris Slyka discovered, it’s an even worse medium for recording and playing back video, ...