Sony 10 Pack 60 min DVM Premium

Review Summary: Excellent Value!!!

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These Sony cassettes are of superb quality and the price is absolutely fantastic. I have literally stopped copying data into the hard disk and keep these cassttes instead (soon I might have a heap of them!!)
Fully recommended for the camcorders that use these tapes.

Review Summary: Fantastic price, great with HD, don't hesitate

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With my Sony HDR-HC9E hi-def camcorder, these tapes record HD just as well as Sony's significantly more expensive HD specific tape, no dropouts, no loss of image quality, etc. I do not know about long term signal retention for archiving. At these prices I will be keeping my tapes as masters, not reusing them. NOTE: Apparently there can be problems with mixing tapes from different manufacturers due to tape lubricant incompatibility, so watch it. Summary: At these prices, make sure you have enough tapes with you. If you use Sony tapes, don't hesitate to stock up with these.

Review Summary: Dodgy sellers

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These DV tapes are indeed excellent but BE CAREFUL before hitting 'Place Your Order' as some sellars are adding 17.5% VAT and the a massive £7.69 postage making a seemingly £12 bargain end up being £22!!

Review Summary: The best price in town!

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This is by far the cheapest on the net or even than what you get in stores. The other companies advertise this for cheaper but they add £9 deliver charges for every item. If you take two or more packs of 10 with super saver delivery it's by far the cheapest and SONY is the BEST out there!

Review Summary: Great value, works even in my HDV cam

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I have used numerous brands of miniDV tapes over the years and have been sticking to these Sony ones for at least the last 2 years, firstly because these are great value, secondly I have not had any problems so far.

I actually upgraded from an ordinary Panasonic DV cam to the all new Canon HV20 Hi Def cam this year and still use these tapes in the new cam to record Hi-def footage! Yes, you can buy specialist HDV tapes, but they cost more. These normal Mini-DV tapes work just fine recording HDV footage. Obviously I can also record normal DV footage onto these tapes as well.

I am no expert in HD recording, I have no idea what advantage of using proper HDV tape is, surely there must be some reason. But for my casual use, I am happy to just still with these ordinary mini DV tapes. I may try the proper HDV tapes when I have an important event though.

All in all, I have no reason to switch to a different tape yet.