View Full Version : What are those four metal thingies at the edge of the miniDV tape?


Ben Winter
March 15th, 2006, 12:38 PM
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/chapter04.htm#The%20Cassette