Why is optical media so efffing ****e ? ?

Will transcribe ASAP.

Graham

"Eeyore" wrote in message
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Why is optical media so efffing ****e ? ?

Will transcribe ASAP.


I've never had any problems with MDs.

On the other hand my RDATs.........:-(

David.

David Looser wrote:
"Eeyore" wrote in message
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Why is optical media so efffing ****e ? ?

Will transcribe ASAP.


I've never had any problems with MDs.

On the other hand my RDATs.........:-(

David.




Or even normal DAT. I once made the error of using a 120 minute tape to
save me the bother of changing it mid-performance. Big mistake.

d

"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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David Looser wrote:
"Eeyore" wrote in message
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Why is optical media so efffing ****e ? ?

Will transcribe ASAP.


I've never had any problems with MDs.

On the other hand my RDATs.........:-(


Or even normal DAT. I once made the error of using a 120 minute tape to
save me the bother of changing it mid-performance. Big mistake.


That's the sort of DAT I meant, sometimes known as RDAT (because it uses a
rotating head drum, like a miniature VCR) to distinguish it from other
digital audio tape formats that used stationary heads.

The place where I worked changed over from using Betamax PCM to DAT in the
early 1990s. Not a wise move as the DAT tapes proved to be far less
reliable than the Betamax ones.

After I left I retained some personal recordings made on DAT, but couldn't
play them as I didn't have a DAT player. So a few years back I borrowed a
DAT machine in order to transcribe them to CD-R. Fortunately I had made
back-up clone copies of most of them, but some of the material could not be
recovered from either the original or the copy. Give me MD any day!

David.

"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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David Looser wrote:
"Eeyore" wrote in message
...

Why is optical media so efffing ****e ? ?

Will transcribe ASAP.


I've never had any problems with MDs.

On the other hand my RDATs.........:-(


Or even normal DAT. I once made the error of using a 120 minute tape to
save me the bother of changing it mid-performance. Big mistake.


That's the sort of DAT I meant, sometimes known as RDAT (because it uses a
rotating head drum, like a miniature VCR) to distinguish it from other
digital audio tape formats that used stationary heads.

The place where I worked changed over from using Betamax PCM to DAT in the
early 1990s. Not a wise move as the DAT tapes proved to be far less
reliable than the Betamax ones.

After I left I retained some personal recordings made on DAT, but couldn't
play them as I didn't have a DAT player. So a few years back I borrowed a
DAT machine in order to transcribe them to CD-R. Fortunately I had made
back-up clone copies of most of them, but some of the material could not be
recovered from either the original or the copy. Give me MD any day!

David.

"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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David Looser wrote:
"Eeyore" wrote in message
...

Why is optical media so efffing ****e ? ?

Will transcribe ASAP.


I've never had any problems with MDs.

On the other hand my RDATs.........:-(


Or even normal DAT. I once made the error of using a 120 minute tape to
save me the bother of changing it mid-performance. Big mistake.


That's the sort of DAT I meant, sometimes known as RDAT (because it uses a
rotating head drum, like a miniature VCR) to distinguish it from other
digital audio tape formats that used stationary heads.

The place where I worked changed over from using Betamax PCM to DAT in the
early 1990s. Not a wise move as the DAT tapes proved to be far less
reliable than the Betamax ones.

After I left I retained some personal recordings made on DAT, but couldn't
play them as I didn't have a DAT player. So a few years back I borrowed a
DAT machine in order to transcribe them to CD-R. Fortunately I had made
back-up clone copies of most of them, but some of the material could not be
recovered from either the original or the copy. Give me MD any day!

David.

Don Pearce wrote:

David Looser wrote:
"Eeyore" wrote

Why is optical media so efffing ****e ? ?

Will transcribe ASAP.

I've never had any problems with MDs.

On the other hand my RDATs.........:-(

Or even normal DAT. I once made the error of using a 120 minute tape to
save me the bother of changing it mid-performance. Big mistake.

When Richer Sounds were clearing out those DCCs, I got one. The tapes seem
to self-erase after a couple of years.

Had trouble with Exabyte data storage tapes too.

Graham

On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:00:18 +0100, Don Pearce wrote:

David Looser wrote:
I've never had any problems with MDs.
On the other hand my RDATs.........:-(
David.


Or even normal DAT. I once made the error of using a 120 minute tape to
save me the bother of changing it mid-performance. Big mistake.


120 minute DAT tapes used the same thickness of tape as shorter lengths so
they should be just as reliable as shorter tapes. Or are you mixing up
minutes with metres? 120 minutes = 60 metres of tape. You can buy 90 metre
tapes which are intended for computer DAT drives and possibly longer.

Cheers

James.

James Perrett wrote:
On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:00:18 +0100, Don Pearce wrote:

David Looser wrote:
I've never had any problems with MDs.
On the other hand my RDATs.........:-(
David.


Or even normal DAT. I once made the error of using a 120 minute tape
to save me the bother of changing it mid-performance. Big mistake.


120 minute DAT tapes used the same thickness of tape as shorter lengths
so they should be just as reliable as shorter tapes. Or are you mixing
up minutes with metres? 120 minutes = 60 metres of tape. You can buy 90
metre tapes which are intended for computer DAT drives and possibly longer.

Cheers

James.


Can't remember - but whatever it was, it was thinner than the normal stuff.

d

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Eeyore wrote:
Why is optical media so efffing ****e ? ?

Will transcribe ASAP.

I've been using MDs from shortly after they came out and haven't had any
problems with them.

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