[SBE] Betacam tape types

[Michael J. Maville]

Frequency response.  You can "punch out" the tabs on a standard Betacam tape 
and record in an SP machine but it will not look very good.

It'll never have the detail level of the SP tape.

Looks "mushy".

Michael J. Maville
Director of Engineering
WXEL TV42/FM90.7
Barry Telecommunications, Inc.


Office: 561-737-8000
E-Mail: MMaville at wxel.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Hughes" <BHughes at napavalley.edu>
To: "sbe member discussion mail list" <sbe at sbe.org>
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 5:33 PM
Subject: [SBE] Betacam tape types



> Hi All,

>

> I'm not an expert on Betacam tapes so I thought I might ask here. We 

> recently received some older PVW-2600 series SP decks and I'm in the 

> process of checking them out.

>

> I've currently got 3 tapes in front of me and I'm not sure of the 

> difference between two of them. The one I know is a Betacam SP alignment 

> tape that works fine with the PVW, it has the red slider for a rec 

> inhibit. The other two tapes play fine but are standard Betacam tapes, no 

> SP. One is a BCT-20K, the other shows a BCT-20K NP 2.

>

> What I don't understand is the differences between the two non-SP tapes 

> and the use of tabs underneath. One tape simply has the rec inhibit tab 

> and won't record on the SP deck, as I assume it shouldn't. The other tape 

> has the same rec inhibit slot but also has 3 slots near the middle, like 

> an SP tape. The 2nd tape wouldn't record until my boss punched out the 

> same tabs as the SP tape. He doesn't know the difference between these 

> tape either.

>

> Any ideas?

>

> TIA,

> Brian Hughes, SBE-CBTE

> Broadcast Systems Engineer

> Broadcast Television Engineering

> Napa Valley College

> x3258

>

>

>

> _______________________________________________

> The SBE Roundtable, SBE at sbe.org

> To unsubscribe, go to http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/options/sbe

>

> http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/sbe

>