Posted by Chel van Gennip on 04/21/06 20:34

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:28:38 +0200, Mike Rivers wrote:

>> 6) tape deformation, resulting in very variable high frequency response
>> 7) total loss because of physical damage e.g. fluids 8) total loss
>> because of magnetic fields during transport
>
> Hey, you can break a CD in half, too. At some point you have to look at
> the things you can deal with. Probably the greatest problem with the
> kind of analog tapes that people like to raise these arguments about are
> just plain poorly recorded to begin with - improperly biased, improperly
> aligned, sloppy tension and guiding. Garbage in, garbage out. Digital
> tape and video tape, because only the recording medium is analog, tend
> to be less prone to those problems, which is probably a good thing.

I have seen many examples of the first one. It seems one side of the tape
is loger than the other side, resulting in nasty high frequency effects.

7 and 8 are typical for analog tape. With digital media you can easely
implement redundancy (several copies on different places) and use networks
for transport of the data and so avoid the problems.

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Chel van Gennip
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