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Posted by Bob Ford on 02/04/07 04:10
On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:43:38 GMT, S. Whitmore
<usenet-bounce@just-stuart.com> wrote:
>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...
It has always been my opinion that you only use tape rewinders with
tapes that you don't care if they get destroyed ;-^)
Bob Ford
Images In Motion
www.imagesinmotion.com
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