Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without tape: noting a printing-machine that does not make use of tapes to sustain the sheet under impression or in process of delivery. Tapeless delivery of printed sheets is now done by many different methods. See
tape , 3.
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- adjective electronics Not using or requiring
tape , such as audio or video tape
Etymologies
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Examples
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I am shooting a seminar this weekend and want to go "tapeless".
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You often hear that people coming through university can't keep up with the fast-paced changes happening in TV, such as the BBC going "tapeless" by 2010 and the change from digital to high definition, which will impact on the technologies we use.
Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2008
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* Mark Harrison, the controller of production, BBC North is to chair a forum exploring the latest techniques in tapeless production on 21 July in Salford hosted by the Digital Production Partnership.
MediaCity On Monday: More good news for Salford- Jeremy Clarkson vows to stay away 2011
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With Mary hanging on my shoulder, we navigated as I shone the flashlight on our many obstacles: sawhorses, jigsaws, levels, the now tapeless toolbelt.
Level Shilo Morlang 2012
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Tape offers the best video quality, followed by tapeless (hard drive and memory card) and then DVD.
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In the latest Riv Reader Grant Petersen advocates giving the tapeless bar thing a try.
Blanket (Tour) Coverage: Cozy or Smothering? BikeSnobNYC 2009
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With the tapeless design, the HD1000 eliminates theneed to queue up a tape deck or get a DVD or hard drive spinning allowing theHD1000 to begin shooting in as little as two seconds!
Sanyo launches world’s smallest ‘Full HD’ camcorder | Sync Blog 2007
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Here's a fenderless and bar-tapeless IRO that looks like it's just plotzed:
The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: The Spring Classics BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Those HVDs are mainly being produced for archiving at this point, since so many high-end digital cameras are tapeless now and people don't trust hard drives for long stretches of time.
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Consider the amount of tapeless consumer cameras on the market: Sanyo Xacti HD1000, Canon Vixia HF10,
MyAppleMenu 2008
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