That deck may have been a hit when it would have been released in 1992.

I love how Philips HFi designs were never boring black boxes even this looks different.

Nice video, thank you!!

something i need it in early 1990s, thanks for sharing, 🙂

nice catch..great find.

How strange that it didn't allow Tape to DCC dubbing. Perhaps if it had been produced for sale that would have been an option? I wonder if you could play a tape, and simultaneously record a DCC using the analog output and input (I am guessing not), or if you would absolutely need a second tape deck if you wanted to transfer music from analog tapes to DCC? I used to record music that was only available on cassette tape to DCC, so it seems strange to me to design a dual deck and not include that capability. Of course it's all theoretical anyway since this deck was never sold.

Interesting that the regular cassette deck mechanism is much larger than the DCC deck. I have expected the opposite for some reason.

Wow, it's a finished product. Imagine the money thet went in to producing such a model. Prototypes are often crude models with many imperfections and things missing. This unit could have been on a store shelf. Everything including screen printing ready for mass production. Imagine being an engineer/designer working on such a product and when everything's finished someone from sales suddenly says "Sorry guys, can't do. Better luck next time..."

😮Is it available in the market