Best place to buy Mini DV tape?

**Crock** · 02-28-2007, 10:15 PM

Hey I know some of you guys are very serious videographers. I'm a film/video student, with a lot of video projects to be done this semester and I need some tapes. From just googling a little, I found ww.streamlineaudiovideo.com to be the cheapest, but was wondering if you guys knew of a better place. I'm only looking to buy like 20 or so tapes. I know if you buy bulk like 100+ they're cheaper, but as a poor college kid I don't have the spare change to buy that much tape stock...mainly because I spent all of my money on ski gear this season. Any helpful input greatly appreciated.

**Tuckerman** · 03-01-2007, 08:43 PM

Originally Posted by Crock

Hey I know some of you guys are very serious videographers. I'm a film/video student, with a lot of video projects to be done this semester and I need some tapes. From just googling a little, I found ww.streamlineaudiovideo.com to be the cheapest, but was wondering if you guys knew of a better place. I'm only looking to buy like 20 or so tapes. I know if you buy bulk like 100+ they're cheaper, but as a poor college kid I don't have the spare change to buy that much tape stock...mainly because I spent all of my money on ski gear this season. Any helpful input greatly appreciated.

I asked this same question a few weeks ago and was given the name tapestockonline which is now where I get my MiniDV tapes. If you use search you may find the posts.

**charlesj** · 03-04-2007, 12:06 AM

I needed to buy many dozens miniDV tapes (basic Sony-nothing fancy) a few months ago. After searching, froogling, calling and checking I went with B&H. They were within a few cents of the cheapest and they are reputable. Usually I try to avoid the monolithic B&H because they seem to have an absurd chunk of the market for all things photographic and videographic (& more).