Sony HDW-F500 Maintenance Manual page 81

REC Inhibit Plugs
Rear of cassette
Detection tabs
HDCAM cassette
No. Use
1
Tape thickness detection
5
Cleaning cassette tape detection
234
Cassette type detection
Cassette type detection tab ( : Closed hole,
2
4
Tab State Cassette Tape Type
3
HDCAM
Betacam/Betacam SP
Betacam SX
Digital Betacam
, , , Except the above
HDW-F500E MMP1
On same side
Recordable
With Tab (Closed Hole)
Tape thickness is 13.5 µm
Normal cassette tape
The HDCAM cassette has no tab only for 4 (Open hole), and
indicates the cassette tape type according to the combination of the
three hubs (See the following).
Flag is at the bottom
No Tab (Open Hole)
Cleaning cassette tape
: Open hole)
Remarks
Unusable
Unusable
Unusable
Unusable
2-11. Mechanism of Cassettes
Unrecordable
2-19