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What do you mean, "far behind"? On the contrary, I think this would be a leap forward, fusing digital video, non-linear editing, digital effects, encoding, storage and, later, uploading to the Internet. These drives could be also used as a digital storage, as a tape streamer. Something we have now with an SD-card slot.
I can see Exabyte drives on eBay, those that take 8-mm cassettes. I also see internal DDS drives. This one would be no different. I have a feeling that Sony pressed Panasonic to not pursue this, because Sony had DDS market to itself.
I don't think the operator holds two cassettes. I think he holds one medium cassette.
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