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To store the digitally encoded audio/video on a standard NTSC Video8 cassette, the tape must be run at double the Hi8 speed. Thus, a 120-minute NTSC Hi8 tape yields 60 minutes of Digital8 video. Most Digital8 units offer an LP mode, which increases the recording time on an NTSC P6-120 tape to 90 minutes.
Patented on March 29, 1988, a cassette tape adapter is a device that allows the use of portable audio players in older cassette decks.Originally designed to connect portable CD players to car stereos that only had cassette players, the cassette tape adapter has become popular with portable media players even on cars that have CD players built in.
Medium or M-size cassettes (97.5 × 64.5 × 14.6 mm), [26] which are about the size of eight-millimeter cassettes, are used in professional Panasonic equipment and are often called DVCPRO tapes. Panasonic video recorders that accept medium cassette can play back from and record to medium cassette in different flavors of DVCPRO format; they will ...
The format is based on the same video tape as is used in VHS, and can be played back in a standard VHS VCR with an adapter. [2] An improved version named S-VHS-C was also developed. S-VHS's main competitor was Video8 ; however, both became obsolete in the marketplace by the digital video formats MiniDV and MiniDVD , which have smaller form factors.
The cassettes have the same dimensions and construction as the cassettes used in 8 mm video format recorders and camcorders. Until the advent of AIT, Exabyte was the sole vendor of 8 mm format tape drives. The company was formed with the aim of taking the 8 mm video format and making it suitable for data storage.
By 1976, ferricobalt formulations took over the video tape market, [60] and eventually they became the dominant high-performance tape for audio cassette. [51] Chromium dioxide disappeared from the Japanese domestic market, [51] although chrome remained the tape of choice for high fidelity cassette duplication among the music labels. In consumer ...
Digital8 machines run tape at 29 mm per second, faster than baseline DV (19 mm/s) and comparable to professional DV formats like DVCAM (28 mm/s) and DVCPRO (34 mm/s). A 120-minute 8-mm cassette holds 106 m of tape and can store 60 minutes of digital video. A standard DVCPRO cassette holds 137 m of tape, good for 66 minutes of video.
The 8-track tape (formally Stereo 8; commonly called eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, and eight-track) is a magnetic-tape sound recording technology that was popular [2] from the mid-1960s until the late 1980s, when the compact cassette, which pre-dated the 8-track system, surpassed it in popularity for pre-recorded music. [3] [4] [5]