This Sony 60-Minute Premium Mini DV Tape is a video cassette tape capable of recording 60 minutes of footage with your camcorder. Once recorded, the cassette can be played using any DV VCRs. After use, rewind the tape completely in order to prevent picture and sound distortion to your footage.
Premium Quality Recording
Watch your videos come alive when you record using DVC60PRL Digital Video Cassette. This tape provides 60 minutes of premium quality digital video. It features Metal evaporated tape, with a Diamond-Like Carbon coating protective layer, which improves durability and helps prevent shedding and drop out.
Technical Features
- Model: Sony DVC60PRL Mini DV Tape
- Manufacturer Part Number: DVC60PRL (Formerly DVC60PR, DVC60PR3)
- Media Type: Mini DV
- Recording Length: 60 minutes
- Advanced metal evaporated tape technology for brilliant picture and sound quality
- Diamond-like carbon (DLC) protective layer provides outstanding durability and helps minimize dropouts
- Evaporated metal for higher output and carrier-to-noise ratio
- Comes in a plastic, protective jewel case
Compatibility
Mini DV metal evaporated tape made for DVC camcorders. This tape is made for use with DVC camcorders and is compatible with both standard DV and HDV recording formats. Each tape is designed to work with Mini DV or HD Mini DV cameras.
Excellent Value Pack
This listing is for 10 Sony DVC60PRL Mini DV Tape 60min Premium Data Cartridge. Excellent Quality at an exceptional value.
Real User Experiences
I use the Sony DVC60PRL Mini DV for my HD video cameras. I used to use the DV tapes rated for HD but it does not make a difference in output quality; yes the HD rated tapes are better manufactured with higher quality magnetic tape, etc but really the tapes are played less than five times; I record then digitize then store. These tapes are great and I like the price.
I’ve been purchasing these Sony tapes for several years (30+ tapes a year) and I love them! I used to buy and use premium tapes, but after a friend suggested that the more expensive tapes didn’t actually increase the quality of the footage, I decided to save my money and buy regular tapes.
The others might be cheaper, but it’s just not worth the risk of losing a critical shot for a client, because we cut corners on tape. Also, as a caution advisory, be careful about buying “premium” HD tapes from places like eBay. I think some of them must be counterfeit, as we purchased some and they were terrible (kept getting errors on the camera, saying there was a problem with the tapes). That’s why we went back to these Sony tapes… they work capturing HD better than the more expensive ones we bought.
I have a bunch of old home movies of 8mm tape, and I have been converting them to digital formats. I convert the 8mm tapes to Mini DV using these tapes and a Sony Handycam. There are a variety of reasons I have this particular workflow, but one of them is that I will have a redundant copy of my videos on Mini DV as backup. And I absolutely trust the quality of these Sony tapes to hold up in the years to come.
I never reuse them, so keeping cost down and finding them locally is important to me. Well I used to get these tapes at Costco years and years ago, before I had a Sony HD video camera. Well I fell in love with these tapes (never had a problem with one of them, and I have used over a thousand). So when I upgraded to HD 1080p video, I started doing a lot of researching on what type to use. Well a lot of people used these tapes. So I continued using these tapes for 1080p and I loved it.
Storage and Handling
Keep tapes in a dust free environment, away from direct sunlight. Avoid high humidity and moisture. Store tapes rewound in their case. Store the tapes standing upright to the ground, not laying flat. The storage environment should not be hot, humid, dusty or smoky.
