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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.
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
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 ...
The cassette tape was a common low-cost and low-performance mass storage device for a generation of home computers. Home computers were a class of microcomputer that existed from 1977 to about 1995. During this time it made economic sense for manufacturers to make microcomputers aimed at the home user.
The first boombox was developed by the inventor of the audio compact cassette, Philips of the Netherlands.Their first 'Radiorecorder' was released in 1966. The Philips innovation was the first time that radio broadcasts could be recorded onto cassette tapes without the cables or microphones that previous stand-alone cassette tape recorders required.
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 ...