These digital recording heads are designed to provide high-definition movie storage on low-cost digital cassettes used for digital-video (DV) storage. Camcorders and VCRs equipped with these heads ...

The home recording video cassettes were introduced with great fanfare by Sony in 1975. However, rivals JVC quickly launched its own format - VHS - which became more popular.

The rise and fall of the digital compact cassette remains a salutary lesson for tech titans—it shows how you can get nearly everything right, and yet still fail badly. Like Britpop, whose 1993 ...