Posted by Richard Crowley on 12/23/07 03:46

"Jim" <jimmy AT hotmail.com> wrote ...
> "Richard Crowley" wrote ...
>> "Jim" wrote ...
>>> A question for the skeptical, professional, and those in the know.....
>>>
>>> Looking at a Sony HVR-A1U listed as mint in box with all accessories.
>>> I am told hours are:
>>> Operation: 0 x 10H
>>> Drum Run: 0 x 10H
>>> Tape Run: 0 x 10H
>>> Threading: 4 x 10
>>>
>>>
>>> Its never been turned on but had the tape inserted 40 times..?
>>
>> No. It means that it has <10 hours of operation,
>> <10 hours of Drum running, and <10 hours of
>> tape running. But it has had tape threaded (but
>> not necessarily moving) for at least 40 hours.
>> You must turn it on to thread tape, and the
>> counters don't run when powered down.
>
> Thanks for the response.
> Yea.. duh me. It won't click 1x10 till 10 hours. so 0x10 is up to 9.99
> hours.
>
> Isn't threading the # of times a tape was threaded thru the heads?
> Basically how many times a tape was inserterted and the threading
> operation performed?
> Thus the fact that there is no H in that integer?
>
> So that means that the camera has pretty much run less than 10 hours and
> had a cassette put in 40 times.

I don't think so. I've never seen any equipment that counted
the number of TIMES a tape had been threaded. I think they
merely dropped the "H" accidentally. "Threading Hours" is
a common metric. "Threading times" is not.

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