Posted by Martin Heffels on 07/21/07 15:36

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:24:15 GMT, "David McCall" <news@junk.us> wrote:

>With tape you not only have to find a deck, you have to find one that still works.

That is indeed a much bigger problem. A while ago I was at a Sony
service dealer, and they were keeping a couple of old U-Matic machines
for spare-parts, to be able to keep at least one machine in good
condition. U-Matic was once a standard for showreels :-)
(glad it's DVD's now)

cheers

-martin-

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