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An audio tape recorder, also known as a tape deck, tape player or tape machine or simply a tape recorder, is a sound recording and reproduction device

be recorded regardless of the tape speed. The first efforts at video recording, using recorders similar to audio recorders with fixed heads, were unsuccessful

reel-to-reel tape recorders into the 1990s, but as of 2017[update], only Mechlabor continues to manufacture analog reel-to-reel recorders. As of 2020[update]

Sony ceased production of new recorders making it more difficult to play archived recordings in this format. Magnetic tape degradation has been noted by

audio tape recorder market entirely in 1983. By the 1990s Ampex focused more on video recorders, instrumentation recorders, and data recorders. In 1991

000 compact cassette recorders had been sold in the U.S. alone. Japanese manufacturers soon became the leading source of recorders. By 1968, 85 manufacturers

Tape bias is the term for two techniques, AC bias and DC bias, that improve the fidelity of analogue tape recorders. DC bias is the addition of direct

tape loops are loops of magnetic tape used to create repetitive, rhythmic musical patterns or dense layers of sound when played on a tape recorder. Originating

scan video tape recorder that year. It was first implemented in reel-to-reel videotape recorders (VTRs), and later used with cassette tapes.[citation needed]

A tape transport is the collection of parts of a magnetic tape player or recorder that move the tape and play or record it. Transport parts include the