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From: kevin@voder.UUCP (The Last Bugfighter)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: Life of Video Cassette?
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Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 20:53:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 14 20:53:22 1985
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   Seems to me that the only way a tape could wear out would be if the
oxide coating starts to flake off from too many loadings/unloadings or
just from a lot of use.  Of course if it's a cheap tape to begin with...
   I would think the first thing you would notice would be white streaks
across the screen (dropouts) caused by the lack of video information on
the tape at those places the oxides getting to thin.  If the oxide is
really thin or flakes off you can't use the tape at all as the end-of-
tape light will shine through and trigger the end-of-tape sensor.

-- 
Kevin Thompson   {ucbvax,ihnp4!nsc}!voder!kevin

"It's sort of a threat, you see.  I've never been very good at them
  myself but I'm told they can be very effective."