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The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, [2] audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Dutch company Philips , the Compact Cassette was released in August 1963.
Lodewijk Frederik Ottens (21 June 1926 – 6 March 2021), known as Lou Ottens, was a Dutch engineer and inventor, best known as the inventor of the cassette tape, and for his work in helping to develop the compact disc. [1] Ottens was employed by Philips for the entirety of his career. [2] [3]
Cassette tape, a two-spool tape cassette format for analog audio recording and playback and introduced in 1963 by Philips; DC-International, a format that was created by Grundig after Phillips had abandoned an earlier format that was being created alongside the Compact Cassette; 8-track tape, continuous loop tape system introduced in 1964
A brown Durium 78rpm record Mechanical analog; lateral groove - made from paper coated in a brown resin 1930s Reel-to-reel, magnetic tape: Studio master tape reel Analog; magnetization; AC "bias" dramatically increases linearity/fidelity, tape speed at 30 ips, later 15 ips and other refined speeds: 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 ips, 3 + 3 ⁄ 4 ips, 1 + 7 ⁄ 8 ips
By 1976, ferricobalt formulations took over the video tape market, [60] and eventually they became the dominant high-performance tape for audio cassette. [51] Chromium dioxide disappeared from the Japanese domestic market, [51] although chrome remained the tape of choice for high fidelity cassette duplication among the music labels. In consumer ...
For example, Panasonic's Tape Library system assigned an ID number to each cassette, and logged recording information (channel, date, time and optional program title entered by the user) both on the cassette and in the VCR's memory for up to 900 recordings (600 with titles).
Voice actor Elwood Edwards is hired to record its now-iconic greeting "You've Got Mail" on a cassette tape in his living room, which is still used three decades later. 1993 : America Online ...
During the magnetic era, sound recordings were usually made on magnetic tape before being transferred to other media. The third wave of development in audio recording began in 1945 when the allied nations gained access to a new German invention: magnetic tape recording. The technology was invented in the 1930s but remained restricted to Germany ...