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Originally Posted by electrictroy
Well, I'm going to have to disagree. If Sony could find a way to store DV video onto Hi8 tape (which is equivalent to S-VHS in qualty)..... surely JVC could have found a way to store data onto Super VHS tapes..
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Well go ahead and build a VCR that can use lesser tape, nobody is stopping you. I am not sure how you can disagree, I have D-VHS VCRs with Mitsubishi, Panasonic, JVC, Hitachi, RCA, and Hughes brand names and none of them can avoid glitches with tape that doesn't rate highly on the Hitachi VCR. Try a standard grade VHS tape sometime if you want to see something funny. Writing the data to videotape and retrieving it is not as easy as you seem to think. The tape must be very smooth and densely packed for the feat to be consistently accomplished. SVHS and VHS didn't have difficult requirements, thus lesser tape made for those formats doesn't work for D-VHS and never will. JVC knew this and offered D-VHS tape and recommended it be used since it was held to a much higher standard than SVHS tape. In other words, D-VHS exceeds the minimum acceptable SVHS standards with flying colors but only the best SVHS tape meets the D-VHS requirements.
What Sony was able to do with Digital8 is hardly relevant, although I expect Digital8 does no better than D-VHS when using lesser tape. Hi8 tape is metal, either evaporated or metal particle and much more expensive than SVHS tape, thus it may be better suited for the needs of digital.
Chris