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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.
Originally, Philips planned on working with RCA and using their RCA tape cartridge system cassette, but Ottens found that the dimensions and tape speed of the set made it not suitable for their desired product. [7] Philips eventually decided to develop their own cassette, with RCA's cassette as a starting point.
Lou Ottens, an engineer who invited the concept of the cassette tape in the early 1960s and later helped develop compact discs, died Saturday at 94, according to news reports from the Netherlands.
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
RCA tape cartridge (Sound Tape) (Magazine Loading Cartridge) The cassette format created by RCA Analog, 1 ⁄ 4 inch wide tape (stereo & mono), 3 + 3 ⁄ 4 in/s & 1.875 in/s, one of the first attempts to offer reel-to-reel tape recording quality in a convenient format for the consumer market 1959 NAB Cart Tape
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 ...
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 ...
The first consumer tape recorder to employ a tape reel permanently housed in a small removable cartridge was the RCA tape cartridge, which appeared in 1958 as a predecessor to the cassette format. At that time, reel-to-reel recorders and players were commonly used by enthusiasts but required large individual reels and tapes which had to be ...