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Continue Reading. Different Types Of Tapes. Hi8 Tapes. Betamax Tapes. VHS Tapes. Relive The Glory Days. How It Works. Throwback To The 80s. At the same time, Philips releases a home-recording machine for tapes. Sony also bullies Phillips into licensing them the technology for free. The first pre-recorded music cassettes hit the market. Initially consisting of 49 titles, this was the first step in creating truly portable music.
Boomboxes become all the rage. An entire culture of street dancing blooms from this completely portable music device. Cities are changed forever. The first Walkman is released to the public.
Manufactured by Sony, this light and portable box included headphones and hours of jams. Where boomboxes made music-on-the-move possible, the Walkman made it personal. Cassettes finally overtake vinyl LPs as the music medium of choice for home consumers. CD players overtake tape players in total sales. At basically the exact same time, CD sales start eclipsing tape sales, leaving cassettes to start wasting away, unused, on shelves all across the world. Blank tapes are still available.
The last car with a cassette player built-in is sold. Patent DE Bing Crosby was a big proponent of tape recording. He did not like having to perform his radio broadcasts twice a day, once for the East Coast of the United States and again a few hours later for the West Coast. He figured that if it were recorded and edited to remove any bloopers or to add different advertisers , he could perform just once.
The marketing in USA and Europe had learned that home tape recording was a very attractive function for consumers, but that reel-to-reel would never exceed the very limited market of those who have technical skills.
Consequently, from around the mid s trials to get the tape in one or another case started Tefi cassette for Tefifon in , Dictet cassette for Dictaphone in , Saba cassette for Sabamobile in Below we present the most successful attempts.
Cartridges and Cassettes Launch of tape cartridges by RCA spurred companies worldwide into developing tape cartridges, cassettes and "magazine tapes" under various names and based on different standards. The common feature of these products was, unlike manually threaded reel-to-reel systems, simply inserting the encased tape into a tape player and pressing a button could operate the new systems.
People without technical backgrounds could operate it very easily. Naturally, the machine itself could also be miniaturized. It was the first attempt to put reel-to-reel tape in cartridge form. The cartridges were reversible and either side could be played. Tape speed was either 3. RCA Records made an early attempt at making this a popular pre-recorded music format.
However it turned out to be a major "Flop" in that regard. The cart tape format was designed for use by radio broadcasters to play commercials, bumpers and announcements.
It will be used until the late s and is on the direct path to the first popular consumer tape format. Fidelipac cartridge was later adapted by Earl "Madman" Muntz in for his Stereo-Pak cartridge system run at 3. Muntz also sold a library of titles licensed from 40 record companies. In the s, Muntz sold about half of the , Fidelipac-type players.
It had a reversible housing with maximum tape protection allowing 30 or 45 minutes of stereo music per side. Tape width: 0. The cassette was available in 2x 45 or 2x 90 minutes and run at 5. The first recorder was Grundig C L. The major change to Fidelipac was to incorporate a neoprene rubber and nylon pinch roller into the cartridge itself, rather than to make the pinch roller a part of the tape player, reducing mechanical complexity. It used only one single reel containing a continuous endless loop of recording tape specifically prepared so that the tape were able to slip out from its inner round of the tape spool.
Tape speed: 3. The King emerge: Compact Cassette The rather stiff license fees demanded by the creators were the reasons why Philips and Grundig decided to jointly develop a "Euro" cartridge system. The reign: Compact Cassette The Compact Cassette format initially offered fairly poor fidelity and was marketed for voice recording and dictation.
Technology improved quickly, and advances in noise reduction technology, its ability to play stereo tapes, and new tape formulations soon assured high-quality sound from the compact format. First cassette marketed for Hi-Fi market. TDK Super Dynamic. Used a single-channel approach and a viariable high-pass filter controlled by the level in a differential signal path. Dolby B reduced tape signal-to-noise by dB. Sony got an exclusive right to distribute the pigment in Japan Advent Model It was was the first "hi-fi" cassette recorder.
It combined Dolby type B noise reduction and chromium dioxide CrO2 tape, with a commercial-grade tape transport mechanism. This resulted in the format being taken more seriously for musical use, and started the era of high fidelity cassettes and players. The only reason for different equalization was to reduce noise by 4. It took more then 10 years to partialy revert that decision.
Japanese companies did not follow that path and that created chaos - we have "normal bias" and "high bias" setting for type I tapes. Sony developes double layer Ferrichrome tape thiner chrome coat lie on a top of gamma ferric pigment. It took Japanese chemists to fix the cobalt ions to the outside crystalline structure epitaxial or within the structure adsorptive Avilyn to stabilize the pigment and get away from having to pay Sony for American oxide.
Metal tape is produced by coating a plastic film with metal powder MP tape.
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