Amazon.com Customer Reviews
Reasonable quality, despite occ. dropouts - Review written on August 10, 2007
Rating: 4 out of 5
16 customers found this review helpful, 7 did not.
The forums say stay with one brand and quality of tape, for the health of the camcorder heads. So I continue to buy these, here and elsewhere when I see a tempting sale price. I do not find these tapes great, as something clearly lacking in the quality - I have seen better. Yet these Panasonic DVC tapes provide reasonably good color for the price. I question their stability as when I reuse them on the second go round, I do notice dropouts and catches and drags. I have high def camera and monitor, so maybe I notice more than someone else. Price on Amazon, good when on sale - yet watch expiry date, source (yes low quality versions or fakes exist), and avoid buying from extreme temperature locations (tape sensitivity). Would not recommend using these for once in a lifetime memories (go better) such as world cruise, graduation, birthing, rare orchids, diva performances, etc. For daily and unimportant shooting of the swimming hole, job, traffic, your house and yard, new car, etc., these do fine.
NOT AS GOOD DV TAPE AS EXPECTED. - Review written on July 08, 2007
Rating: 3 out of 5
3 customers found this review helpful, 15 did not.
I KNOW PANASONIC/QUASAR VERY WELL. THEY MAKE FINE PRODUCTS. I HAVE OWNED THE PRODUCTS THEY MAKE SINCE THE 1960'S. I JUST PURCHASED A MINI DV CAMERA FROM PANASONIC. IT CAME WITH A TDK TAPE. TDK, SEEMS TO ME HAS A VERY LONG HISTORY OF GOOD QUALITY VHS BLANK TAPES. I HAVE SOME THAT ARE OVER 10 YEARS OLD AND PLAY FINE. FOR SOME REASON I AM NOT CRAZY ABOUT THESE MINI DV CASSETTES FROM PANASONIC. I BOUGHT 5, AND OUT OF THOSE 5, ONE TAPE THAT I RECORDED, WHEN PLAYBACK WAS DONE, NO SOUND ON PLAYBACK. TDK, SEEMS TO RECORD BETTER THEN PANASONIC. I TRIED RECORDING IT OVER AGAIN AND THE SAME THING HAPPENED. MIGHT BE A FLUKE WITH THE CASSETTE, BUT I WILL TRY SOME OTHER BRAND NEXT TIME. MAYBE TDK, OR SONY. THANK YOU