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  1. The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, 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. [2] Compact Cassettes come in two forms, either ...

  2. Compact Cassette tape types and formulations. Standardized notches for automatic tape selection. Top to bottom: Type I (and Type III), Type II, Type IV. Audio compact cassettes use magnetic tape of three major types which differ in fundamental magnetic properties, the level of bias applied during recording, and the optimal time constant of ...

  3. The Digital Compact Cassette ( DCC) is a magnetic tape sound recording format introduced by Philips and Matsushita Electric in late 1992 and marketed as the successor to the standard analog Compact Cassette. It was also a direct competitor to Sony 's MiniDisc (MD), but neither format toppled the then-ubiquitous analog cassette despite their ...

  4. Give good old Wikipedia a great new look. The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, 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.

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  6. The thickest tape normally used in cassettes is about 16-18 μm in thickness, and is used in C60 cassettes and in shorter lengths such as the C46. As the standard tape speed for a compact cassette is 1 + 7 ⁄ 8 ips (4.75 cm/s) and a C60 cassette records 30 minutes per side, a C60 cassette in theory holds 281 + 1 ⁄ 4 ft (85.73 m) of tape. In ...

  7. Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) (1992 – 1996) Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) was a digital audio recording format using magnetic tape, introduced by Philips and Matsushita in 1992. Pitched as a successor to Philips’ own Compact Cassette and competitor to Sony’s MiniDisc, it never became popular. It shared a very similar form factor to ...

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