Digital Compact Cassette
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Digital Compact Cassette is a discontinued magnetic tape sound recording format introduced by Philips and Matsushita Electric in late 1992 and marketed as the successor to the standard analog Compact
A Digital Compact Cassette sent to the readers of Q magazine
Digital Compact Cassette front
Philips DCC portable player
Hi-Fi-system-sized DCCs and recorder
MiniDisc
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MiniDisc is a discontinued erasable magneto-optical disc-based data storage format offering a capacity of 60, 74, or 80 minutes of digitized audio.
Digital Compact Cassette
…and Matsushita Electric in late 1992 and marketed as the successor to the standard analog Compact Cassette. It was also a direct competitor to Sony's MiniDisc (MD), but neither format toppled the then-ubiquitous analog cassette despite their technical superiority, and DCC was discontinued after four years in…
MiniDisc by TDK, with AA battery for scale
The Sony MZ1, the first MiniDisc player, released in 1992.
Pioneer MiniDisc car receiver
Sony Hi-MD Recorder MZ-RH1, released 2006