The heart of the DigaMax data recorder. DigaMax will be demonstrated during the 1997 Press Visit. The heart of DigaMax is the magneto-resistive head that writes eight channels in parallel.
Sophisticated technology is needed for processing and structuring of the magnetic materials used.
The first generation has a transfer speed of two megabytes per second. The buried servo information and the precision actuator are needed to find the narrow tracks and to stay on them. The serpentine tracking method creates 192 tracks on a standard 8-mm tape. With a variable tape speed of between 11 and 44 inch per second, DigaMax can cope with the variable MPEG-2 video data throughput. This significantly reduces search times.