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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.
Cassette single (or "Cassingle"), a music single in the form of a cassette tape; Digital Audio Tape (or DAT), a digital audio cassette tape format, mainly used by professionals; Digital Compact Cassette (or DCC), a short-lived digital audio cassette format aimed at domestic users; Videocassette, a cassette containing videotape, for use in VCRs
The phrase cassette tape is ambiguous in that there is no common dictionary definition [1] [2] [3] so depending upon usage it has many different meanings, as for example any one the one of 106 different types of audio cassettes, [4] video cassettes [5] or data cassettes [6] listed at The Museum of Obsolete Media.
The IEC reference tape bias definition is: Using the relevant IEC reference tape and heads according to Ref. 1.1, the bias current providing the minimum third harmonic distortion ratio for a 1 kHz signal recorded at the reference level is the reference bias setting.
“Cassette culture” is an international music scene that developed in the wake of punk in the second half of the 1970s and continued through into the first half of the 1980s (the "postpunk" period), and in some territories into the 1990s, in which a large number of amateur musicians outside the established music industry, usually recording in their homes and usually recording to cassette ...
Digital Audio Tape (DAT or R-DAT) is a signal recording and playback medium developed by Sony and introduced in 1987. [1] In appearance it is similar to a Compact Cassette, using 3.81 mm / 0.15" (commonly referred to as 4 mm) magnetic tape enclosed in a protective shell, but is roughly half the size at 73 mm × 54 mm × 10.5 mm.
Philips had developed the Compact Cassette in 1963 and allowed companies to use the format royalty-free, [2] which made it hugely successful but not a significant money-maker. The company saw a market for a digital version of the cassette, and expected that the product would be popular if it could be made compatible with the analog cassette.
Digital audio cassette formats introduced to the professional audio and consumer markets: Digital Audio Tape (or DAT) is the most well-known, and had some success as an audio storage format among professionals and "prosumers" before the prices of hard drive and solid-state flash memory -based digital recording devices dropped in the late 1990s.