Posted by Steve King on 07/12/06 03:29

"Rick Merrill" <rick0.merrill@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote in message
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> Steve King wrote:
>
>> "Richard Crowley" <richard.7.crowley@intel.com> wrote in message
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>>
>>>"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

If that means you think I might be smarter than I sometimes appear to be,
thank you.

Steve King

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