Re: [AV Media Matters] Analogue vs digital tape stock

[tvmark@gateway.net]

Sorry.  I forgot to include the URL for the digital tape:
http://www.quantegy.com/467.asp

TTFN,
Mark

Mark Schubin wrote:
>
>There's usually a pretty enormous difference in coercivity (higher for
>the digital)  For example, Quantegy Grand Master 499 analog tape is 350
>Oe (http://www.quantegy.com/499.asp).  The same company's 467 digital
>tape has 762 Oe coercivity.
>
>TTFN,
>Mark
>
>russm@idirect.com wrote:
>>
>> No, I'm not starting an arguement...
>>
>> Question, what's the difference between a reel of 1/2" audio tape stock
and
>> a reel of 1/2" digital audio tape stock?  Marketing?  I want to recycle
>> some digital tape stock for use in an analogue recorder.
>>
>> Russ M.
>>
>> Moderators Comment:
>> I hope Eddie Zwaneveld contributes on this one - at one point in a SMPTE
>> meeting he showed results of precisely this investigation for BetaSP
tape
>> and Digital Betacam tape. By my recollection - and this is only a
>> recollection - there were two differences that were significant in the
test
>> results. One difference was where the little holes were punched in the
>> cassette shell to tell the machine what type of tape it was - the other
was
>> the price. In the testing process I don't seem to remember that there
were
>> other major differences in performance..... again this was just a
>> recollection which may be - - - faded....
>>