Dead is an overused word. But in the case of tape, it really has gone to meet its maker. It has shuffled off its mortal coil. It is an ex-acquisition medium. Traditionally, technology only died if you ...

The mechanism that reads and writes magnetic tape as it moves past. Quality tape recorders have three heads: play (read), record (write) and erase. Many consumer products have only two: one that plays ...

Design updates include improved cutting and toolless tension adjustment, making the tape head more responsive and easier to operate for superior performance with recycled corrugate and underfill ...

Despite enormous technological advances, most TV-news operations continue to use videotape, a medium that predates the Internet age by decades. But early next year, Channel 4 will leave the clunky ...

In our no-nonsense journey through the world of audio technology we’ve so far have looked at digital audio and the vinyl disk recording. What’s missing? Magnetic tape, the once-ubiquitous recording ...

When Viking shipbuilders went about their craft in the 10th century, duct tape probably wasn’t part of their toolkit. But that didn’t stop Roy Burke from using the industrial tape to place a modern ...

UK high street electronics retailer Dixons has pressed eject on the video cassette recorder. With DVD players outselling VCRs by a ratio of 40 to one -- and DVD recorders rapidly heading towards the ...

The White House took the startling step Wednesday of trying to block the rebroadcast in the U.S. of Al Qaeda's videotaped harangues. In doing so, it may have done the mass murderers an unintended ...