Posted by Toby on 07/13/06 00:52

"Richard Crowley" <richard.7.crowley@intel.com> wrote in message
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> "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.

Amen to that!

Toby

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