Wait. What? A Philips NCC DAT-Direct DD550 Text to Speech Portable Digital Compact Cassette?

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Жыл бұрын

We found this unique player online and had fun determining how it was used in the mid 90ies.

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@Shannon-Smith Жыл бұрын

Another fantastic video.

@Retroaria 11 ай бұрын

So rare, so interesting. Thanks.

@michaelturner4457 11 ай бұрын

Perhaps the company meant D.A.T. in like a general sense, in that DCC is a tape that does record audio digitally? Rather than referring to the specific Sony DAT format.

@JacGoudsmit Жыл бұрын

A unique device; not that interesting from a technology point of view, but definitely interesting that some company saw enough of an opportunity to do this. Too bad there's not more known about the story of this device.

@humfelbert2079 11 ай бұрын

Well that was very interesting. Thanks for the video!

@DRDCC 11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@andrewgardner8330 11 ай бұрын

Hi Doctor DCC did Philips ever make a minidisc deck and did Sony ever make a DCC deck..maybe not so...Great video 🎥👍 All the best Andrew in London ..🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@DRDCC 11 ай бұрын

Not that I know of.

@JacGoudsmit 11 ай бұрын

Sony never made a DCC recorder but after the demise of DCC, Marantz (owned by Philips at the time) made at least one MiniDisc recorder. The Philips remote control codes for DCC were reused for MD.

@FullFledged2010 11 ай бұрын

I had one of those ^^ Actually still have a couple tapes for it. There was a story going around that you could also use regular metal tapes. I did try it but can't remember if it actually worked ^^

@DRDCC 11 ай бұрын

Can you remember where you bought it?

@FullFledged2010 11 ай бұрын

@@DRDCC At a second hand audio store in the Netherlands. H&C venray. Aangezien je Nederlands bent misschien ken het wel ^^

@making-memories-nl Жыл бұрын

Wat mij erg opvalt is dat de belettering er nog zo keurig uitziet. Meestal zijn de letters al losgekomen aan de zijkant. Weinig gebruikte unit dus. Mooie video weer.

@Capturing-Memories 11 ай бұрын

So basically the dcc recorder has nothing different from a dcc-170, The extra hardware that would have come with the recorder is a PCI card that connects internally into a desktop and has SPDIF out to connect to the recorder, This is technically can be done with any recorder with optical or coaxial input not just a dcc recorder.

@DRDCC 11 ай бұрын

All true. Hence my wondering on why this exists.

@unmanaged 11 ай бұрын

so I think this might be some kind of way for making audio books ....

@PeterMilanovski 11 ай бұрын

Wait what happened? Was the computer reading the text and the DCC recording what it heard or was the DCC generating the voice from text? I'm not entirely sure what was actually happening?

@DRDCC 11 ай бұрын

The computer generated the audio and the dcc would record that audio from the soundcard.

@PeterMilanovski 11 ай бұрын

@@DRDCC okay thanks... So what is so special about this unit apart from it's title? I record audio to compact cassette from a computer to this very day... I remember the first time I recorded tape from my Walkman onto my 85Mb HDD in my 386DX40 computer in the early 90's... I still remember having to remove all my files to record one song in wav format... Had MP3 been around, maybe I could have got an album in LoL... I didn't know much back then but I already knew that I would like to keep my music on my computer... I didn't know it then but that was the beginning of the end for tape, but here I am today still hanging in with my tape collection that I still use... And they will keep serving my till time stops for me...

@user-iz2if7km4j 11 ай бұрын

I have a Philips Receiver FR751 and collected at Philips Audio HK office before 1997, please advise who want to keep it. I can donate at free but new owner need to bear the delivery cost.