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Jim Waggener
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Sun Dec 26, 2004 10:41 pm Post subject:
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you overwrite DV tapes? I have a bunch I'd like to record over.
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PTRAVEL
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Sun Dec 26, 2004 11:47 pm Post subject:
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"Jim Waggener" <jimw@nospam.visi.net> wrote in message
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It depends.
Reusing tapes increases the likelihood of flaking coating and/or stretching
which, in turn, can result in dropout.
Tape is cheap. Why take the risk?
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Mike Beauchamp
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Mon Dec 27, 2004 5:38 am Post subject:
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Just a question, where do you buy tape? Tape seems pretty expensive here and
I have to buy around 15-20 tapes for a 3 month long trip I'm going on.
Mike
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PTRAVEL
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Mon Dec 27, 2004 8:23 am Post subject:
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"Mike Beauchamp" <news@mikebeauchamp.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Tape is cheap. Why take the risk?
Just a question, where do you buy tape? Tape seems pretty expensive here
and I have to buy around 15-20 tapes for a 3 month long trip I'm going on.
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I buy Sony Excellence from www.totalmedia.com. When I travel (which is
fairly often), I run through about 5 hours a week, which translates to 10
tapes for a 2 week trip, 15 for a three week trip. Five tapes run around
$40, with shipping, perhaps a tad less. Compare the cost of the tape with
the cost of the trip, and the cost of the camera and support gear, and it's
a tiny fraction of what I've spent to get where I'm going and to shoot video
once I'm there.
Note, too, that I shoot Excellence, rather than Sony Premium -- the latter
cost about half of the Excellence tape, but I spend more so that I'm assured
I won't have any failures or drop outs (and, indeed, after shooting 100 or
so hours, I've yet to have a single drop out).
My tapes get used exactly twice: once when I shoot and the second time when
I play the tape back for capture to the computer.
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Dimitrios Tzortzakakis
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Mon Dec 27, 2004 8:23 am Post subject:
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In theory, camcorder tapes with metal coating last up to 1000x
re-recording.A much better design than old CrO2 (Chromium dioxide) VHS
tapes.
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Tzortzakakis Dimitriïs
major in electrical engineering, freelance electrician
FH von Iraklion-Kreta, freiberuflicher Elektriker
dimtzort AT otenet DOT gr
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