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An early obstacle for videotape was the difficulty of recording such high bandwidth data (~5Mhz) without a very high tape speed (~5 m/s), requiring impractical lengths of tape. Why is this? What is the relationship between bandwidth and tape speed?

by /u/audacias in /r/askscience

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