Posted by Richard Crowley on 11/04/99 11:48

"Pat Horridge" wrote ...
> We have a range of different MiniDV decks here from a range of
> manufactures to cope with the fact that it's fairly common to have one
> MiniDV tape that won't play back in a particular deck.

If you limit your statement to the "long-playing" version of DV,
I will agree. If you are talking about *all* DV, then I would ask
you to provide some evidence that would convert your opinion
to some kind of fact. If we use these forums as a "statistical
sample" of the universe of DV users, the interchange problems
appear to be very low. Far lower than for VHS, for example.

There appear to be less than 1/month cases of people coming
here (r.v.p, r.v.d) complaining about DV interchange problems.
So far, 80-90% of them have been people trying to use the long-
play mode which everyone agrees is quite marginal. The other
10-20% appear to have equipment which has gone out of
alignment (as the OP of this thread.) Video tape equipment has
been going out of interchange alignment now for 50 years. Unclear
why DV would be exempt from the same kind of normal wear
& tear we experience in the real world.

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