Olympus invented the microcassette recorder in 1969, but these devices still help people capture audio information. Some microcassette recorders even have voice activation features that trigger ...

A few weeks ago we discussed tricking your video cassette recorder into thinking that it`s an audio deck. Well, here`s one more rabbit out of that hat. Recent statistics indicate that about as many ...

The digital audio tape recorder, known in the consumer electronics industry as DAT, may be close to winning space on U.S. shelves after a battle that has pitted new technology against old-line ...

Philips N.V., a large Dutch electronics company, created a stir in October when it announced that it was developing a digital tape recorder that also will be able to play conventional analog cassettes ...

Since Sony introduced DAT (digital-audio tape) in 1987, it has been the preferred format option of many journalists, musicians, and live-concert and lecture-audience members, who want to capture a ...

I've recorded live music events on DAT tape for years and recently started thinking about ways to modernize the process and skip the tape altogether. I've been looking for a portable audio recorder to ...

Philips NV, the Dutch electronics company that created the cassette tape, announced yesterday that it is developing a digital tape recorder that also will be able to play conventional analog cassette ...