Just when you thought it was safe to go into the compact disc waters, here comes yet another new format for recorded music. It`s digital audio tape–DAT for short–and it is being touted as the next ...

Still in a quandary over whether to convert your vinyl record collection to compact disc? Hold off a wee bit longer and you can own a machine that plays DATs. DATs — digital audio tapes — play up to ...

Will digital audio tape players be the miracle product that brings life back to the consumer electronics industry? It has been several years since the industry had a hot product drawing hordes of new ...

Put your S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) cables away. There's now an easier way to transfer audio information between a DAT (digital-audio-tape) deck and your PC's hard drive at faster than ...

On May 7th, 1946, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded ’Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo’, the company that would later become Sony. After its beginnings making tape recorders and transistor radios, it rapidly ...

When we consume our music online via streaming services it is easy to forget the days of recordings being contained on physical media, and to overlook the plethora of competing formats that vied for ...