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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like many music junkies, Gene Bartholomew has spent thousands of dollars on compact discs. He estimates he has 3,000 in his personal collection. In the coming months, two major electronic ...

More than 100,000 Japanese braved three successive typhoons the second week of October to reach a building complex in Tokyo called Sunshine City. While storms raged without, within the 40th annual ...

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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 ...