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Retro-Tech D-Theatre
🕑 Added 2016-04-22 18:00:58 +0000 UTC Here's the full video about D-Theater, the HD VHS movie format.
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Michael Archambault
Interesting as I never knew this format existed.
maxM@x
You could have scaled Tape Video Tech to near infinite video quality. In 2014 Sony released a press announcement that they'd made a 185tb tape drive, an enterprise/"The Cloud" storage format. If there was really the required demand, then they'd have tried to adapt a vhs like format with better manufacturer scaling. The problem is gross margin on high end tapes is horrendous compared to discs, and nobody wants a $150-$500 minimum price per movie according to Sony's own market analysis of (X[UnitsSold])(Y[PriceCharged])=(Z[ProfitMade]) assessment reports have indicated dating back to the Lazer Disk Era. Here's an article link for the Sony tape drive story. <a href="http://www.extremetech.com/computing/181560-sony-develops-tech-for-185tb-tapes-3700-times-more-storage-than-a-blu-ray-disc" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.extremetech.com/computing/181560-sony-develops-tech-for-185tb-tapes-3700-times-more-storage-than-a-blu-ray-disc</a> P.S. assuming we'd even just use a currently prosumer 1.5tb tape drive how would you make a movie that big? I'm not sure how.
Carl Pullman
You Matt are a comic genius! Well done!
Graham Kirtley
And here is me thinking that my JVC SVHS machine was as good as video tape got.
Jono
Fascinating. Another topic you've found that I had no idea existed. I had always thought that svhs was the pinnacle of home video tape technology. Thanks for educating me!
h.drew foy
interesting , thanks
