Best 8mm tapes?

[Mark Callow]

In article <JIM.90Jun29141926 at baroque.Stanford.EDU>,
jim at baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman) writes:
|> If top quality tapes don't guarantee long term data storage, will SGI
|> or a third-party have a DAT subsystem out soon?  I understand they
|> are much better in this regard.
|> 
Recent articles in rec.video indicate that DAT will not perform any better
than 8mm video tape with regard to tape stretching, data longevity etc.
Once article mentioned that because DAT's contain digital data with 2 levels
of error detection and correction the effects of stretched tape will be
reduced.  However when using 8mm video for backup the data is digital...
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