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Posted by Fred on 02/13/07 04:10
Bill wrote:
> I use almost nothing but Sony Premium. Like Ptravel, I never record on
> the same tape twice, keep the camera away from dust, avoid abrupt
> changes in temperature and humidity, and store tapes in a dry, cool
> location.
>
> I used to keep a box of audio cassettes that went "bad". I have never,
> in seven years of recording miniDV, encountered a bad tape yet. Now
> that I put it into words, I'm a little astonished myself, but it's true.
>
I guess we are still learning what the lifetime might be for thses tapes.
but if it's valuable stuff, now might be a good time to transfer to new
media while keeping the old as an experiment to see how long the media
lasts. From what I've heard, they don't just get gradually weaker, there
is a point where they just don't play anymore.
There was a guy at our club that bought a new camera and used it for half a
project when it started giving him trouble. He sent iit in for repairs and
they fixed it well enough. They just needed to re-align the heads, of
course the 75 hours he had already shot was unreadable on any machine after
that. Had to be done over.
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Regards, Fred
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