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Posted by Rick Merrill on 07/12/06 12:59
Steve King wrote:
> "Rick Merrill" <rick0.merrill@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Ldednegfdv2RrCnZnZ2dnUVZ_uqdnZ2d@comcast.com...
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>>Steve King wrote:
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>>>"Richard Crowley" <richard.7.crowley@intel.com> wrote in message
>>>news:e914lq$mqf$1@news01.intel.com...
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>>>>"Steve King" wrote...
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>>>>>So, where did the difference lie between mini-DV and typical
>>>>>tape-backup hardware do you think? In the tape formulations? In the
>>>>>way the ones and zeros are put on the tape? On the tape speed? On the
>>>>>way the head scans the tape? Something else?
>>>>
>>>>Media used for "hard data" budgets a significant quota of the raw
>>>>capacity to ECC. There is strength in numbers (in this case, numbers
>>>>of different ways of reconstructing bad data).
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>>>How can media budget anything? It is just plastic and emulsion in the
>>>tape form. If it is the 'recording electronics', to use terms a geezer
>>>can understand, that handles the data differently than does the
>>>electronics in a tape backup deck I could understand that.
>>>
>>>Steve King (at his densest)
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>>or being deliberately obtuse!
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>>-fellow geezer
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> If that means you think I might be smarter than I sometimes appear to be,
> thank you.
>
> Steve King
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you're welcome!
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