Sony - About a 2 months ago I bought 2 Sony brand Premium Digital Videocassette tapes and figured they would be good quality, since my Sonydigital camcorder the TRV-9 is still in good shape after two years and is a great camera. But after I watched back what I recorded on BOTH tapes the last 5 minutes were completely destroyed. There was bars across the image and at one point my camera turned off and told me to eject the tape. I took a look at the tape inside and it had creases through it and was crumpled. Then a month and a half later I needed two more digital tapes and with the best quality because I was going to make two final tapes of the two projects I was doing. I went to a certain camera store and when I asked about the Sony Premium digital tapes they said they had problems with them and I shouldn't get them.
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My address is: joe Schmoe Fart Productions P.O. Box 6969 Hangover CA 42069 Thank you for your time.
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