MiniDV tapes were typically locked to a 60 minute maximum recording time.If you want to maintain quality footage, you need to be using new tapes – re-using tapes increases chances of glitching and loss of quality. MiniDV tapes are no longer in production, meaning we will now start to see a serious drought in tapes.At the very least, you get annoying glitching, which is quite prominent in my videos, and at worst, the tape head eats your tapes and flat out stops working. 90% of issues with video cameras of this era stem from the tape head.In 2021, MiniDV tapes just aren’t worth the hassle though, for the following reasons: It was a format that won out against the more bulky High-8 tape format, and until recently you could still buy MiniDV tapes.
Video cameras of practically any description in the late 90’s and early 2000’s used MiniDV tapes – a tape format consisting of a 3 inch wide tape that slotted into your camera’s tape deck. However, all of these old skool VX’s suffer from one, horrendously outdated problem: they use MiniDV tapes. I’m currently filming with a Sony VX2100 – not quite the same as the incredibly desirable VX1000, but it’s smaller, and offers a few improvements over the older model that I personally prefer. I’ve made videos since 2003 and have also burned through a vast array of video cameras. For anyone new to this blog, The Terrible Company has long existed primarily to produce low budget, daft skate videos.
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