Talk:Videotape

message: This could use a rewrite.  The first sentence implies that it's only for recording from television, when it can of course be used to record from other sources (such as video cameras), are a popular format for commerical pre-recording materal, and can contain other content such as films.
It also gets fairly technical immediately after the first sentence. Pimlottc 12:37, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  First paragraph 

message: Isn't there a joke template that has that in there somewhere? Anyway, I'm going to take a hack at it, but organizationally it's a disaster, and it contains a fair amount of misinformation and poorly contextualized facts. Haikupoet 05:52, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: This page sucks

message: "Kids joyfully excited for Barbara Walters, Paul Simon, Mary Costa, Alison Bartlett, Lily Tomlin, Phil Donahue and Savion Glover: "Well thank you, thank you, Count! It was cold yesterday with grapes VHS"
Isn't that a bit long?  
In fact, what is that entire section doing there? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.32.16.100 (talk) 00:17, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heading 

message: As I mentioned this before (click here), JVC already ceased producing stand-alone VHS recorders as of date.  Google it, especially in Google News, and you'll find out yourself.  --Gh87 (talk) 07:25, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  JVC ceased stand-alone VHS recorder productions 

message: "Later machines had longer life and used delay lines to compensate for the differences in the four heads"
Does anyone know of this "delay lines" text refers to the infamous mercury delay lines that put Eckert-Mauchly computers and radar system MTIs with this technology at such a disadvantage?  Since these machines first came out after core memory went into production, it seems very unlikely. Featherwinglove (talk) 09:37, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Unlikely. Delay lines that amounted to just a whole bunch of thin wire were once common in television circuits. Even pre-digital consumer color TV receivers had them (because the chroma path was several stages longer than the luma path, so the luma path had to have a delay line to avoid the luma and chroma being out of sync downstream). Jeh (talk) 20:59, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question about Quad 

message: Nothing in the "following factors may be considered" section makes much sense in the context of the article:
In the first bullet point, tape is compared with hard drive storage, the implication being that tape is superior in reliability. This implication is made using the point that hard drives are mechanical, and have specific factors which make them failure prone. The mechanical nature of tape, with accompanying failure modes, is not mentioned, nor is the use of solid state hard drives.
In the second point, hard drive connectors are discussed. The author states, "A hard drive from 10 to 20 years ago will not use the same connectors that are commonly available on computers today. Videotapes from the 1970s and 1980s will still play in their respective machines." To rephrase, a hard drive from a previous generation of computer will only work on this generation's hardware and software, and similarly, a videotape from the 1970s or 1980s will work in a machine of the same generation. This is a moot point.
Finally, in the last point, solid state SD storage is compared to DVD and Blu-Ray discs, with no mention of videotape. This point has no relevance in its current form.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.196.136.176 (talk) 00:00, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Future of Tape 

message: Videotape was invented for excellent quality TV shows better the bad kinescopes. --173.55.239.44 (talk) 19:36, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: This is covered at Quadruplex videotape. Should it be here as well? I'm not sure that this article should cover as many "videotape" subtopics as it does... let alone more...  given that the other articles exist. Jeh (talk) 22:06, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Videotape as replacement for kinescopes 

message: We have Videotape for a Video tape recorder. I've opened a proposal for consistent terminology at Talk:Video tape recorder#Requested move 28 November 2020. Please leave your thoughts there if you have any. ~Kvng (talk) 02:39, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Videotape vs. Video tape