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From: carey@seismo.UUCP (Marie Carey)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Info wanted on Beta Tapes
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Date: Tue, 21-Feb-84 08:43:31 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 21 08:43:31 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 22-Feb-84 02:28:03 EST
Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
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My husband and I just purchased a Sony Beta and we are concerned
about what tapes to use. How do we know a "thick" tape from a 
"thin" tape? I have heard quite alot of bad news about the thin
tapes so we would like to purchase only the thick tapes for our
machine. Can anyone suggest the best Beta tapes on the market and
how one can tell the difference between a thin and thick tape?
Also price does not matter in the least. I may be mistaken also,
but it seems that the VHS tapes are somewhat of a better quality.
The Maxell tape is supposed to be really good, but we are not able
to find that tape in a Beta format, only a VHS format. Of course,
we only tried two video stores. We would appreciate any information
anyone could give us. Thank you very much.  
M. Carey