I don't want to dispute this but how would the speed of the tape affect the editing system, would the out put not be a DV stream that is indistinguishable (other than that any tape flaws will be amplified due to more data loss) from a DV stream coming from a tape recorded at the faster speed. Gerhard Kuhn On Jan 29, 2004, at 7:46 PM, James Asherman wrote: >> Also, there are some editing systems that don't recognize the >> extended play >> tapes. > Das true