Wild specualtion... I suspect that people are miseld because of
1) Ill informed shop assistants,
2) HDV labels on tapes, but often no DV label - clearly the industry wants us all to go HDV,
3) The assumption cos HDV is 'better' that it needs 'better' tapes.
HDV needs a good tape - like DV. The bit rate of HDV is actually LOWER than DV so deop outs may be less likely but because of the data structure of HDV a drop out may look worse.
I have never noticed any brand of tape being better - regualr drop outs have always been a camera fault.
A drop of rate of about once or twice per one hour tape is often cited as 'normal' and I would agree with that.
Maybe avoid the first ten seconds or so of each tape - this is where lots of drop outs seem to happen.
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Last edited by Mark W; 02-15-2008 at 03:10 PM.
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