Fuji Video Tapes

[Ian Tucker]

Hi Malcolm,

I was sometimes using Fuji Hi-8 tapes before going to a Canon DV video 
camera.    I had terrible trouble with one of these when I was in a 
remote area of NW Australia when it fouled the recording heads and 
later, every time I  tried to recover the footage for editing, it would 
foul the reader heads.    I took it to to the Hanimax/Fuji  branch here 
in Adelaide and after a lot of followup calls I finally got an 
acknowledgement from them that the tape was faulty and they then 
replaced it with another and a couple of free VHS tapes.     I also had 
trouble later in that trip with another Fuji tape that wanted to" 
spaghetti" out of its cassette while filming.!

I will not touch their tapes again.

FWIW, I try to buy tapes of well known brands that have been made in 
Japan, USA, France , or Germany.    I also carry this practice over 
into purchasing CD/DVD's    I don't worry if assembly of the cassettes 
is carried out elsewhere.

Ian. T.




On 12/02/2004, at 2:30 PM, Macintosh Digital Video List wrote:

> Subject: [MacDV] Re: Using Fujifilm miniDV tapes
>
> --- Chris Zayachkowski <digitalvideoboy at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
> I have purchased a six pack of these tapes. I have
> used them all 2 or 3 times a piece. So far I had one
> go bad. Not being an expert, I am not sure if that's
> good or bad. The purchase price for six was $28.00 at
> a BJ's Wholesale club.
>
> Good Luck,
> Norm L.
>
>
> Malcolm,