Any experience with the loss of data information on digital video
tapes due to airport scanning etc?

NVRosie schrieb:

    > Any experience with the loss of data information on digital video
    > tapes due to airport scanning etc?

It´s no problem

    > Any experience with the loss of data information on digital video
    > tapes due to airport scanning etc?

Tests were done many years ago on analog tapes. Absolutely
no damage was found due to x-rays. Digital tapes will be no
different. However, older conveyor belts might have poorly
designed motors with excessive magnetic fields, and that could
damage any magnetic media.

Viktor

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    > Any experience with the loss of data information on digital video
    > tapes due to airport scanning etc?

I've taken hundreds of miniDV tapes through multiple scans in airports
throughout the US, Europe, Asia, Africa and India. I've never had so much
as a drop out, much less any loss of data. Xrays don't effect magnetic
media.

There was a time, back in the early 80s, when there was concern that the
magnetic fields created by the motors in the conveyor belts could damage
magnetic media. However, I've never heard of any documented instances, and
I haven't even heard this urban legend for at least 10 or 15 years.