Posted by Richard Crowley on 07/11/06 21:19

"Steve King" wrote...
> So, where did the difference lie between mini-DV and typical tape-backup
> hardware do you think? In the tape formulations? In the way the ones and
> zeros are put on the tape? On the tape speed? On the way the head scans
> the tape? Something else?

Media used for "hard data" budgets a significant quota of the raw
capacity to ECC. There is strength in numbers (in this case, numbers
of different ways of reconstructing bad data).

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