On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:25:56 +0100, Laurence Payne
wrote:

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:34:24 +0100, Stuart McKears
wrote:

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.

I suspect the first half of your reply is accurate. The second half
is fanciful.

All the video cameras I know about have advanced error correction but none of
them use LP mode so it could be "fanciful" for LP mode :-)
Stuart

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