Dead is an overused word. But in the case of tape, it really has gone to meet its maker. It has shuffled off its mortal coil. It is an ex-acquisition medium. Traditionally, technology only died if you ...

The mechanism that reads and writes magnetic tape as it moves past. Quality tape recorders have three heads: play (read), record (write) and erase. Many consumer products have only two: one that plays ...

Design updates include improved cutting and toolless tension adjustment, making the tape head more responsive and easier to operate for superior performance with recycled corrugate and underfill ...

In our no-nonsense journey through the world of audio technology we’ve so far have looked at digital audio and the vinyl disk recording. What’s missing? Magnetic tape, the once-ubiquitous recording ...

UK high street electronics retailer Dixons has pressed eject on the video cassette recorder. With DVD players outselling VCRs by a ratio of 40 to one -- and DVD recorders rapidly heading towards the ...

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