Digital Compact Cassette in 2023 [video]

I’m seriously impressed at how much effort was put into developing aesthetically interesting ITTS screens for so many DCC releases. Some of them are genuinely good examples of artistic expression within a limited medium, and it’s a shame they were never seen by consumers despite being there the whole time. Seems likely that a machine capable of ITTS output was in the pipeline, perhaps even on the verge of going into production, but was canned due to soft sales of the DCC format. If DCC had come out a few years earlier, perhaps, it might have been more popular as it was quite capable, even though it was always destined to be a transitional medium.

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Anyway, isn’t this the reverse of how these things usually ended up? Usually, the system spec and the actual hardware would offer various nice features, but no actual software/media/whatever used it. Here, it seems to be the other way around — the software (cassettes) has these features that noone ever got to see, as the hardware didn’t support it? Then again, I suppose there wasn’t that much stuff published on dcc...