I'm familiar with how data storage works. I used to use plain, ordinary, nonspecial music cassettes to store my programs (back in the 80s).
Not all Hi8 tapes are metal. Some are simply high-grade oxide (like Super or Digital VHS tapes). And Video8, which is most-definitely oxide, works with Digital 8 as well (you need to use High Grade, but it works).
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Originally Posted by Chris Gerhard
Well go ahead and build a VCR that can use lesser tape, nobody is stopping you. I am not sure how you can disagree.....
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I already answered this.
But here it is again:
Because Sony already designed a Digital recorder that can record on "plain jane" analog tape. (Hi8, or even Video8). I'm sure if Sony got their hands on VHS, they'd use similar techniques to record DV direct to Super VHS..... without needing special tapes.
You see: In my view, the reason Super VHS "flopped" as a format was because JVC required consumers to go out & buy expensive tapes. (To which consumers responded: "Forget that.") Later-on JVC introduced SVHS-ET to record on standard VHS (which works quite well). Why didn't JVC provide that functionality right from the start??? Perhaps if they had, enabling poor consumers to reuse old tapes, Super VHS would have eclipsed the original standard.
BTW:
Which Super VHS tapes have you found to be the best-quality (for D-VHS recording)?