On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 21:42:57 +0100, Tony Morgan
wrote:

Why is that? What is it about LP that makes it less than ideal?

IIRC, the basic reason is that LP is reading/writing the same amount of data
onto a smaller piece(length) of tape. Errors of any sort - data, head alignment
and/or tape defects - are all magnified. The camera software will, I suspect,
have built in error correction routines for things like head alignment which are
marginally incompatible with other cameras.

Stuart

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