Posted by PTravel on 07/13/06 18:46

"Richard Crowley" <richard.7.crowley@intel.com> wrote in message
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> "PTravel" wrote ...
>> "Toby" wrote ...
>>>> More sloppy typing by me -- that should read "gross drop out errors
>>>> that CAN'T be fixed by conventional ECC . . . "
>>>
>>> You mean "can't be fixed LOSELESSLY by conventional ECC"? I would bet
>>> that almost all ECC in DV is lossy.
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>> Yes, that's what I meant. As for your bet, I'm not interested in
>> gambling. I'm more interested in hard data which, so far, no one has been
>> able to provide.
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> I suspect that if there *IS* any data of your specified hardness,
> it is considered proprietary by the manufacturers. As long as we
> consumers (both amateur and professional) are satisfied with the
> performance, it would not be in their best interest to reveal the
> actual numbers. This principle likely applies to breakfast cereal
> and laundry detergent as much as it does to tape and video/audio
> equipment.

I would think something like "mitigated" error correction rate is something
that would be a function of equipment manufacturers rather than tape
providers. I know this kind of information is available for other kinds of
hardware, e.g. hard drives.

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> Can one force a corporate entity to reveal proprietary informaion
> in discovery? in testimony? Just curious.

Yes. It's produced subject to a protective order, usually stipulated, that
the information is either "confidential," i.e. not to be shared or exploited
outside the litigation, or "confidential -- attorneys eyes only," i.e. not
to be shown to the client, but available to the lawyers to develop and
present their case.

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