Posted by Richard Crowley on 01/12/55 11:52

"PTravel" wrote ...
> Not be confrontational, but do you have any stats for that? D-25 data on
> a miniDV tape is also a whole lot less dense than a hard drive, which is
> one of the reasons that less robust error-correction is required. Drop
> out on miniDV isn't the result of read errors, but of magnetic media
> flaking off the binder and leaving an empty spot with no data. As long as
> the integrity of the magnetic media is maintained (and it's not exposed to
> heat or magnetic fields that would corrupt the alignment of the magnetic
> particles), the data will be read without error.

I think you have a very sanitized and idealistic concept of how
magnetic tape works. Take a couple of hours and visit a
repair facility where they work on DV camcorders (or DAT
or any other small-guage rotating-head digital equipment).
How this stuff works down where the head meets the tape
is not nearly as clean and simple as you seem to think.

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