Advice for tape drive repair / maintenance

In article <0f3701c7250e$fa94e3e0$f0fea8c0 at alpha>, "Alexandre Souza" <alexandre-listas at e-secure.com.br> writes: ...at least if you think like a TV manufacturer. If you think like a computer manufacturer and see video as just another data stream, then there's tons going on in TV electronics. Recording radio programs from a schedule into an internal hard disk for later playback? Now you're starting to get it. The ossified portion of the electronics industry, particularly consumer media electronics, is exactly that way because they have not embranced the digital revolution. They are still thinking of TV "features" in terms of analog circuitry. Some of them are getting it now, but only some of them. When they build digital electronics, its still being built the way TV sets were built: closed, fixed systems with no upgradable parts and no interfaces beyond existing analog interfaces. This is why its cheaper to build a media PC and have it act as a DVR than it is to buy a "consumer electronics" DVR that talks to your existing PCs. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>