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?

The Digital Compact Cassette, or DCC, was one such format. Released by Philips in 1992 as a replacement for the analog audio cassette, it failed to gain traction in the market and disappeared ...

Unlike MiniDisc and Digital Compact Cassette (DCC), a competing format from Phillips and Matsushita that used the analog audio cassette form factor, the encoding of the audio on DAT was lossless ...

A documentary about the past present and potential future of the Digital Compact Cassette Very few people know the true story about the Digital Compact Cassette or DCC Was DCCs audio compression ...

Introduced by Philips in 1965, the "Compact Cassette" offered ... many of the first personal computers allowed audio cassette recorders to function as digital storage. Never widely used, their ...

This reduction in thickness allowed C90 cassettes to hold around 426 feet (130 meters) of tape within the same compact cassette housing, thus accommodating the extended playback duration.