Philips Compact Cassette

Here no loose reels are used, but a small cassette which contains the tape.
Operation is particularly simple. Mount the cassette, press the button ... ready for recording or playing.
The Philips compact cassette system is a great success and became a world standard. It has  replaced the tape recorder with loose reels.

1961 start development of a compact battery-recorder with a cassette system at Philips Hasselt under the guidance of ir. L. Ottens.

1963 introduction of a small cassette recorder on the Funkausstellung in Berlin.
It was to become a world standard no licence fee will was charged.

1966 pre-recorded compact cassette tapes (Musicassettes) in stereo came on the market.

1966 the cassette recorder is built in a portable radio.
1967 the cassette recorder is built in the car radio.

1971 Cassette recorders with chromium dioxide tape and special heads to comply with HiFi demands.  In 1973 Philips brought out their first HiFi/stereo-cassette recorder.

1988 the compact cassette had existed 25 years. 3 billion approximately sold world wide.

1992 - 1996 Digital Compact Cassette  (DCC).  
Audio information will be digitally recorded to enable to reproduce CD quality. It remains possible to play the normal analogue audio cassette.

	1963 First cassette recorder with remote control on the microphone. Type EL3300.  Tape speed of 4,75 cm per second.
1966 First Philips portable radio with build in cassette recorder. Type 22RL962.
	Spring 1973. HiFi/stereo-cassete recorder-deck N2510. With the chromium dioxide HiFi-cassette the  compact cassette system will produce HiFi/stereo sound quality .
1992. DCC-900. First DCC recorder. Part of the famous digital Philips 900 Series.