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Originally Posted by ben
The (rightly praised) solidity and weight of construction of said A77 are unviable for mass produced item aimed at today's domestic users, to say nothing of the unintuitive tape handling. There is no way Joe Average, who at most would have had tape experience of a VHS or mini system, is going to remember to go via the opposite fast wind before stopping, or wait until spools have halted before playing.
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This still seems to be minor problem in the sense that it should be fairly easy to fix should one want to start manufacturing them again. I'm thinking of the Tandberg 9100X/9200XD which doesn't have motion sensing, yet has delays in the switching electronics so that when going from wind to stop there's a delay before play can be started. It's usually fairly fail safe (although there are are situations where you can trick it). Today one would probably have a small microcontroller handling all sorts of logic work within the machine anyway.