"JNugent" wrote

I don't have much experience with digital tape. I do have a
nowadays-unused DCC machine (and about four DCC cassettes) but never owned
a DAT recorder. I do have a digital tape video-cam, but can't say that
I've either used it much or noticed any problems.


I had a fair bit of experience of RDAT back in the 1990s, and to be honest I
hated it. The tape was so thin that it would sometimes get tangled in the
works, tapes sometimes wouldn't play back on machines other than the one
they were recorded on, archived tapes would be found to have periodic
drop-out leading to the playback machine muting, etc. I much prefered the
Betamax-PCM recorders which we had used previously, but these days I'd steer
clear of any tape-based digital recording systems. Disc based, or better
still solid-state, recorders are far-far better IMO.

David.