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Retro-Tech D-Theatre

Here's the full video about D-Theater,  the HD VHS movie format.

Retro-Tech D-Theatre

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Interesting as I never knew this format existed.

Michael Archambault

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.

maxM@x

You Matt are a comic genius! Well done!

Carl Pullman

And here is me thinking that my JVC SVHS machine was as good as video tape got.

Graham Kirtley

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!

Jono

interesting , thanks

h.drew foy


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