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Large cassette Betacam
What do you call a large cassette Betacam tape?
In Hawaii we called it a “pancake”.
Anyone else have one?
Rich Rubasch
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Full Size Beta.
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Large Beta.
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Obsolete?
Just kidding, sorry for being snide. I master to Beta more than I want to.
60 or 90 MIn Betas is what I call them.
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[Rich Rubasch] “In Hawaii we called it a “pancake”.”
Sorry Rich but that name was appropriated years before to describe large spliced together cinema reels that feed horizontally off a large flat plate into a projector.
Never heard anyone call digi beta tapes anything but digi beta. Cruel to call anything by a food name during long sessions into the night.
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Viagrabeta.
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And even before that, it was used to describe bulk audio tape that would then be spooled onto individual reels.
As for Betacam, I believe that the “official” designation of large and small cassetes is simply “L” and “S”. Large and small? could it be that simple?
At least that’s how the tapes used to be named when ordering them. In Sony’s service manuals the two cassette sizes are always referred to as S and L.
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Where I work (Washington DC) we call it a wide mouth beta.
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