Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site seismo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!carey From: carey@seismo.UUCP (Marie Carey) Newsgroups: net.video Subject: Info wanted on Beta Tapes Message-ID: <619@seismo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Feb-84 08:43:31 EST Article-I.D.: seismo.619 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 Lines: 16 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