Fashion magazines frequently choose a dowdy individual for a makeover. Demeanor, cosmetics and clothing turn a sister into a Cinderella. Philips played fairy godmother to its own compact cassette, ...

In a moment of weakness (and against my better judgement) I bought the DCC deck I've been coveting off of eBay. True to form the vendor charged me an arm and a leg (i.e. half the winning bid) for ...

The new Excalibur hotel in Las Vegas features medieval jousting. The winter Consumer Electronics Show that ended Sunday in Las Vegas featured jousting 1991 style. Philips tossed down the gauntlet by ...

Having a fondness for old and obscure audio and video media formats, [Techmoan] recently revisited the Philips Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) format introduced in 1992. Despite being billed as the ...

During the 1990s, music was almost invariably stored on CDs or cassette tapes. When the new millennium came around, physical formats became obsolete as music moved first to MP3 files, and later to ...

[url=http://arstechnica.co.uk/civis/viewtopic.php?p=31749667#p31749667:vgx7ws1y said: Hat Monster[/url]":vgx7ws1y]I'm not sure you can label Matsushita as "up and ...

DCC is a format that is long forgotten, but it absolutely demonstrates the extreme innovation that was around in the Nineties! For a long time in the eighties and nineties, the DAT recorder was the ...

WHEN the chips are down, the gambler in Sony invariably comes to the fore. Even by the standards of Japan’s battered consumer-electronics industry, Sony has just reported some horrendous results for ...