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Originally Posted by DVtyro
Does anyone know, is there a cassette identical to one of the DV types that is/was used as a digital tape storage?
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I never saw any professional DV-cassette-related data-storage devices, but in the 2001-2004 range, some effort was put in to using Mini DV camcorders as data recorders/players for over-the-air HDTV signals, specifically from the PCI HDTV tuner boards that were available from several companies in the 2000-2005 or later period.
I had (and still have) one of the first fifty of those HDTV tuner/recorder boards, a HiPix DTV-200. At that time, hard disk drives were still expensive enough to make tape-based mass storage a cheaper option potentially, with full ATSC HD stream captures being near 9 gigabytes per hour.
AVS Forum was the big center of all things HD-related in that era, but I do not know if they have archives going back that far. Now you have me curious, maybe I will look this up for nostalgia's sake.