1.   But far from surpassing the compact disk, neither the digital compact cassette nor the minidisk even approached the CDs performance standard.

2.   But in Europe, Morishita said, the digital compact cassette is doing better than it is elsewhere.

3.   Indeed, the deleterious effect of high-order compression on music has been amply demonstrated by both the digital compact cassette and the mini-disk.

4.   That is partly because Europe is the stronghold of Philips Electronics, the Dutch company that developed the digital compact cassette with assistance from Matsushita.

5.   The digital compact cassette, or DCC, uses cassette tapes that are the same size as analog cassettes.

6.   The failure of the digital compact cassette and minidisk bear witness to that.

7.   It has become so widely used and distributed akin to the proliferation of the Philips compact cassettes.

8.   Matsushita has recently suffered a bitter experiece with Sony as its digital compact cassette using cassete tapes has failed to achieve popularity in Japan.