There may be such beasts, but I wouldn't trust my data to them.
Better get a "real" computer tape drive.
Problems with these video beasts:
- No read-after-write, therefore no decent error control.
- The additional conversion to an analog video signal means that the speed
is nothing to speak of.
- No filemarks, i.e. one backup per tape.
- How do you push the rewind/play/record buttons with the computer?
- Timing of the signal (usually, parallel-port) is likely to be rather
critical -> writing a Linux driver is difficult at best.
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