Posted by Rick Merrill on 07/11/06 23:15

Steve King wrote:

> "Richard Crowley" <richard.7.crowley@intel.com> wrote in message
> news:e914lq$mqf$1@news01.intel.com...
>
>>"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).
>
>
> How can media budget anything? It is just plastic and emulsion in the tape
> form. If it is the 'recording electronics', to use terms a geezer can
> understand, that handles the data differently than does the electronics in a
> tape backup deck I could understand that.
>
> Steve King (at his densest)
>
>

or being deliberately obtuse!

-fellow geezer

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