What does DCC stand for?

People on each side swore that they would be the sole survivor, while the other would be exiled to the same Land of Misfit Toys as Betamax, MiniDisc, Digital Compact Cassette and other past misadventures in consumer electronics.

Digital Audio Tape, Digital Compact Cassette and Minidisc, all allegedly superior to the CD, came and went.

In recent years, companies have touted a range of products including Sony's MiniDisc, Philips' Digital Compact Cassette and Digital Audio Tape.

Past winners have included Polacolor film (1963), the flashcube (1965), the automated teller machine (1973), the halogen lamp (1974), the fax machine (1975), the liquid crystal display (1980), the touch-sensitive screen and color graphics printer (1986), the Kodak Photo CD (1991), the Nicoderm antismoking patch (1992), the digital compact cassette (1993), Taxol anticancer drug (1993), and the Power Beat automotive battery (1994).

the Dutch consumer electronics giant, recently teamed with other firms to develop a digital tape recorder that uses a digital compact cassette Philips believes will soon become the industry standard.

The Pinnacle also can be purchased with a Digital I/O option which allows S/PDIF digital transfer between PC and DATs, Digital Mixers, Mini-Discs, Digital Compact Cassettes, and other digital peripherals.

These offices represent Philips business units that include laser optics modules, optics, optoelectronics, electro optical components, magnetic heads, professional Digital Compact Cassette (DCC), wirewound components, DCC modules and tape mechanisms, optical media and microelectronic modules.

Seagate entered the thin-film tape head market in 1988, and is now the industry's leading manufacturer of thin-film/MR tape heads for Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) devices.