Posted by Martin Heffels on 07/11/06 22:01

On 11 Jul 2006 14:58:20 -0700, "Mr. Tapeguy" <mr.tapeguy@pro-tape.com>
wrote:

>I got literature indicating similar ratings for Panasonic but no one
>could tell me what the measuring unit for the 50-100 dropouts is.
>
>Based on analog tape such as 3/4" which used to be rated at maybe 5-6
>per minute I cannot believe that they would actually make a product
>that might average 50-100 dropouts per minute. Number one it would be
>crap - moving WAY backward on the technical achievment timeline and I
>while I'm no engineer I can't imagine how any kind of error correction
>could handle that many dropouts.

No it isn't crap. It turns out that the errors can be corrected quite well
without us noticing it. A big difference is obviously tapesize and
tapespeed, and undoubtly the headsize as well, which makes the amount of
drop-outs on mini-DV much much higher.

cheers

-martin-
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