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From: kolling@decwrl.UUCP (Karen Kolling)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Sony 2710 and Sony "gold" tapes
Message-ID: <376@decwrl.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Sep-85 17:30:39 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  8 17:30:39 1985
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Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Palo Alto, CA
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Awhile back I send a message muttering about how my new Sony 2710
was producing recordings with a tremendous amount of vertical flutter,
and wasn't this a pain in the neck, for a machine to malfunction when
it was only a month old.  Now that I've got some more experience with
the situation, it has become more bizarre and interesting.  Shortly after
I bought the vcr, I also bought a stack of blank Sony "gold tapes" from
the Wherehouse.  What is actually happening is that each time I record
on one of these gold tapes for the first time, the recording is terrible,
full of vertical flutter.  If I then rerecord over the tape once or twice,
things become okay.  Other (old) tapes that I play shortly after a "first
recording" on one of the gold jobs usually aren't effected, but sometimes
they have a tiny amount of flutter, which vanishes if I rewind and play it
again.  This has happened with all of the gold tapes, so it's not just
a coincidence.  Does this sound like there is some rubbish on the 
surface of the new gold tapes, that the trusty vcr is getting rid of?