I'm just wondering this, I mean when Sony released MicroMV it was obvious that if they put the same DV video on the little tape it would only hold half an hour so that makes me think... size does matter in tapes, so,

Don't you think that if they put the same technology from MiniDV on the 8mm tape it would have hold 2 hours of DV and finally outperform MiniDV. Don't you think the 1 hour holding of DV video in 8mm tapes was forced to not kill MiniDV?

I'm just wondering...

8mm tape was designed for analog signals. It stores 2 hours of analog video in the SP mode.

Hi8 tape was designed for analog signals. When Digital8 was released it was designed to use Hi8 tape, but with half the recording time due to the increase bandwidth requirement. 2 hours for analog and one hour for digital.

Hi8 and Digital8 tape is the same. 8mm tape is a different composition.

MiniDV is a different tape than Digital8 but they contain the same digital video.

MicroMV uses different tape and does not use the same DV format as MiniDV and Digital8. MicroMV 12 Mbit/s MPEG-2 compression.




Rich

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Thanks for the clearing.

I'm speaking wondering the psychology of the market, just supposing if the MicroMV tapes were to use the DV codec theoretically would hold half an hour since DV is 25 mbps and the used in MicroMV MPEG2 is 12 mbps. The bigger DVC tapes hold 2 hours. Since bigger is more data I guess because Hi8 tapes are bigger they should have been able to store more DV Video than the MiniDV tapes. Like Betamax and VHS, VHS tapes are bigger and holded more video. It's not fact proven that the analog signal recorded in Hi8 tapes mean less data than DV video. I'm just wondering than when Sony had the idea of Digital8 they forced the engineers to make the tapes hold just one hour so MiniDV doesn't die. Don't cha think?

No.




Rich