Sony Crams 3,700 Blu-Rays' Worth of Storage in a Single Cassette Tape

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Originally Posted by Petra_Kalbrain

Are we going in circles while simultaneously advancing technology? Going backwards AND forward at the same time?

Bottom line though, if resolution can meet/exceed Blu-ray, I'm all for magnetic tape storage over digital/streaming options in the future.

It's not a playback medium as far as I can tell, it's a backup storage medium. And we've had too many examples in the past of tape deterioration, so I'd be concerned about any chemical process (although optical storage has failed as well).