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Originally Posted by electrictroy
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).
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)?
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Please show me a link to a Hi-8 tape that is not either metal particle or evaporated metal. I have already stated the best tape period for D-VHS in my opinion is Fuji H471S SVHS tape and I consider TDK Pro SVHS tape the second best I have used. I like the way you claim that Digital8 requires high grade 8 MM, but it works and you seem to think Sony solved the problem with writing and retrieving digital data using inexpensive tape.
My first non-Beta VCR was an SVHS VCR. I was aware I could drill a hole in standard VHS tape and make quasi SVHS recordings, they weren't as good as recordings using true SVHS tape. When JVC started making SVHS-ET VCR's, I purchased those as well, an HR-S9800U was one and it did do a better job with VHS tape, but it still didn't do as well as true SVHS recording.
Let me just conclude by stating from experience after making well over 1,000 D-VHS recordings that standard grade SVHS tape and even some high grade SVHS tape can't cut it for D-VHS. The reason is simple, the requirements for SVHS aren't nearly as critical and tapes that meet minimum standards for SVHS certification will work fine for SVHS, but won't cut it for D-VHS consistently and that is the end of the discussion. No D-VHS manufacturer ever succeeded in making D-VHS VCR's that I found could make standard grade SVHS tape work consistently enough for me to use it. Some tapes worked, others didn't so I just made the easy choice and used tapes I knew worked acceptably.
Chris