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Tell me - does this degrade the quality of the picture in any way? Essentially, you're always recording on used tapes, even if it is only one cycle.
I'm aware of this, and whenever I rewind a partially-recorded tape to review something (which is infrequent), I always make sure to fast-forward just enough to leave the counter with a value other than --:--:--. It's easiest on my Sony TRV-900 to use the quick-review button in record mode that automatically backs it up a few seconds, then slowly plays forward. It usually stops right where I need it to, but I can use these buttons to tweak it so I'm not overwriting more than one or two frames.
Granted, I review what I'm recording very infrequently so I won't have to do this, but I usually don't need to.
Am I being unnecessarily paranoid about pre-recording over all my tapes? I can see how pre-striping them would definitely come in handy.
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