Sony Announce new tape technology
Sony has developed a new high density tape using a nano-grained magnetic layer.
Sony Global - Sony develops magnetic tape technology with the world's highest<sup>*1</sup> areal recording density of 148 Gb/in<sup>2</sup> |
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Yes, there's a lot of downloading and backups after acquisition. It currently seems to be a case of flash memory on the camera and using other means of storage afterwards, especially since backup copies are also required.
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Always interesting when Sony develop a tape format as they tend to get long term cross technology use out of them.
Betamax became, betacam and digital betacam and the DAT format became DV, Hi 8 was used as part of the Exabyte back-up system around 20 years ago so it will be interesting to see where this goes as there is still a need for tape based archive and back-up for news and doco production. Maybe a hybrid 4k or 8k system could be a possibility ala the Z7 for HDV ? |
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It may therefore be that this technology actually sees light of day in a future extension of the LTO standard? In general, Gary's quite right about Sony generally having thought long term about historic formats (at least in the pro world!) - not just abandoning a format when something new comes along. Hence current Digibeta decks will play all the previous SD Beta formats as well - from SX, through SP right back to oxide Betacam. And HDCAM SR decks will play basic HDCAM and Digibeta. |
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Very much doubt we will ever see Sony put tape in a camera again. While the capacity of IT tape goes up, the write speeds still lag way behind solid state.
I don't think there was any relationship between DAT and DV. DAT used 4mm tape in a housing similar to audio dictation cassettes while DV used 6.35mm tape. Sony's Digital8 used High8 8mm video tapes with DV digital encoding. |
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