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Summary: only only only TDK
Review: We've bought something around five hundred blank video tapes over recent years, used all of them. It is TDK only that has proved reliable.Sony was a nightmare. No matter what store, and which quality line, all those tapes were very bad, and that unpleasant discovery came after I'd already accumulated different purchases totalling 150+ Sony vidocassettes. All Trash! No Sony cassette ever worked properly here in EP mode, and this despite the fact that the recording VCR is a new Sony model. Sometimes the tracking would just get into chaos. Sometimes a thick white horizontal line across the screen. Sony in EP = garbage disposal. Sony in SP mode, sometimes ok, sometimes not, but even the ok ones wore out very rapidly, and there was a noticable waviness and poor quality difference at any time. Maxell, we had some intermittent luck with for a while, but not lately. Mainly lately having failures when trying to play on the VCR that is not the original recording one. In EP mode. The tracking fails, and the tapes is useless on any but the original VCR. Too bad. A couple years ago, luck had been running better with the Maxells, but not so lately, this past year or so...had to quit buying Maxell. Fuji, no problems, but the times bought them, it was their low-end line, and the poor pic quality was far too blatant, even for our relatively low VHS standards chez nous. It is TDK with whom I've never yet had a bad tape, and that's hundreds of TDK tapes have used. Often overwriting again and again. EP mode. Different VCRs, recording and playback. I won't buy anything but TDK now. It's not worth all the time recording something, to have it put on lemons. TDK could charge three times the price for me, and I'd still choose them, after this extensive track record of proving themselves the only ones that I can count on.
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