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Title: which Dat tape? (lenght)
Post by: ponape on May 01, 2004, 04:48:43 PM

If I have a show recording  in flac/shn  on my Hd and
the show decompressed is for example 105 minutes.
And i would like to transfer it to a Dat tape.
Do i need a 120 min tape (dont know if its even exist)?o its better to put it on 2 60 min Dat tape?
Is there a loss of quality between long time tape and short one?
I used to read that long time tape may have more errors or something like that?Which lenght is usually prefered?

Title: Re:which Dat tape? (lenght)
Post by: bhadella on May 01, 2004, 05:14:14 PM

60 meter DAT tape  = 120 minutes
90 meter DAT tape = 180 minutes

I would use as short of a tape as possible...

Title: Re:which Dat tape? (lenght)
Post by: plucks on May 01, 2004, 06:55:05 PM

yes, use short tape if recording live (60m or even 95min).  
If you know a recording will fit on a certain length tape (90m or 3hr), you wont have problems with that either.