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Ben Winter March 15th, 2006 12:38 PM
What are those four metal thingies at the edge of the miniDV tape?
 
On cheaper MiniDV cassettes, they're just plastic. But what are they for when they're metal?

Peter Wiley March 15th, 2006 12:47 PM
They are contacts for a chip that's built into some tapes that is used to store information. see:

http://www.shortcourses.com/video/ch...The%20Cassette


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