Posted by Richard Crowley on 12/23/07 18:11

"Jim" wrote ...
> Thanks for the responses from everybody!
> "Richard Crowley" wrote ...
>> Well, I downloaded the PDF manual for the camcorder,
>> and INDEED it does keep a *count* of tape threadings
>> rather than the "threaded hours". I would be fascinated
>> to know why they think that the number of threadings
>> is significant and the threaded hours is not.
>
>
> Would threaded hours as you speak of, be the same as 'Tape Run'?
> Since that is the time of the tape running past the heads (threaded
> obviously)

No. "Tape Run" is incremented while the tape is actually
moving, not just threaded into the machine.

Perhaps "threading count" is significant because they
aren't making the mechanics as beefy as they used to,
and they have some significantly limited life expectancy.

[Back to original message]