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Originally Posted by Chris Gerhard
Please show me a link to a Hi-8 tape that is not either metal particle or evaporated metal.
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Well I failed. I couldn't find any. I retract my previous statement.
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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.
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Oh sorry. I thought you were referring to D-VHS tapes.
I have about 100 TDK XPpro tapes in my library. Most are currently holding copies of Babylon 5, but I have a few blanks I could test in my new D-VHS machine.
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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.
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"Digital8 (SP) recordings can be made on standard-grade Video8 cassettes, but this practice is discouraged..... To store the digitally-encoded audio/video on a standard Video8 cassette, the tape must be run through the recorder faster." -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video8#Digital8 and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital8
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....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.
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No it does look less clear, but that's an engineering or technician point-of-view (quality). I'm looking from a marketing view (cost) which is:
- If in 1987, consumers had been able to upgrade to SVHS while still using their existing blank VHS tapes, the format would have succeeded. Consumers could have upgraded painlessly to higher-quality video w/o needing to buy $10 s-vhs blanks (unless they wanted to).
- But since consumers could not do that, the format flopped. It was positioned too high in price.
That's the marketing viewpoint.
Trying to keep the cost low,
so the format gets adopted.
One final question:
What happens when you try to record HDTV using the STD speed? I've heard it can be done as long as the bitstream stays below 14.7 Mbps. Is that true?