There was a time in the not-too-distant past when magnetic tape was the primary way of listening to and recording audio. Most of us are familiar with the cassette tape, a four-track system that ...

In the early 1990s, several different digital magnetic tape formats came onto the scene ... the Digital Compact Cassette. It was backward compatible with standard audio cassettes, an important ...

TOKYO (TR) – When a reporter for TV Asahi (Jan. 11) visited a company that provides dubs VHS tapes to digital formats, the ...

Reel-to-reel tape loops date back to the musique concrète era of the 1940s where musicians would string the long pieces of magnetic tape ... infinite loop within the cassette shell itself.

Before DVDs and Blu-ray, and before CDs and Walkmans were cool, there was of course the trusted VCR that used a form of magnetic tape video recording. A VHS cassette contained up to about 1,410 ...

Cassette tapes have made a comeback ... plastic box filled with a roll of magnetic tape. On that tape you'll find, as if by magic, the work of musical icons such as Madonna, Prince and Rick ...