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Posted by S. Whitmore on 02/04/07 03:43
I have a DV tape rewinder made by Kinyo, a brand I'd never heard of.
It does a fine job of rewinding most tapes, but certain tapes
immediately jam and the rewind process won't start.
The tapes that jam have to be extracted carefully from the machine and
manually wound to take up the slack. This means that there is some
tape risk for each tape until I've tried it. JVC tapes seem to work
fine; Panasonic and Sony tapes seem not to, although I'm not sure it
will always be like that. However, tapes that work seem to always
work, and tapes that fail seem to always fail.
Did I just get a bad unit? A bad brand? Or are rewinders just not
all they're cracked up to be? I bought it for the normal reason of
reducing wear on my camcorders (plus multi-tasking so that I don't
have to wait for a tape to rewind before moving on to the next tape in
a set), but now I'm hesitant to use it...
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S. Whitmore
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