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

[russm@idirect.com]

My thanks to all of you.  It sounds do-able, if illogical, at least for
non-critical recording.

So where's Eddie?  I want to hear about DigibetaSP, it sounds like we could
have yet another format on our hands.  It seems to me some semi-pro
videomakers drill holes in VHS tapes in order to record SVHS signals on
them.  Hey, if I stamp sprocket holes into a 1/2" tape I could run it in my
Steenbeck?

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....
>