Talk:Loop bin duplicator

I have two questions:

1. my understanding was that the signal was transferred by actually running the source tape in physical contact with the blank through a transfer head which carried a very weak bias signal which copied the signal across. The article currently doesn't mention this, and the assumption would be that the signals are transferred electronically (which may also be the case I guess).

2. Why use 1/2" or 1" tape when the destination is only 1/8"? Surely it would be much more productive to copy onto wider tape, then slit it down to 1/8" individual tapes, thus recording 4 or 8 cassettes at once. Is that ever done? I can imagine in this case that track alignment would be very critical, but it's going to be anyway since the 4 tracks on the destination cassette must be precisely positioned. I don't see what the benefit of the wider source tape is if the destination is already narrow. Graham 05:33, 27 February 2006 (UTC)