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Posted by doc on 06/01/06 20:17
great illustration. your right on. digital is digital, it's all about
numbers and even though the format may change for reading them or storing
them it's easy to find software or programming to make the swtich to the
"now" version. but with analog tape, once the hardware solution dies, the
format is lost and gone forever. our betacam machine died and the cost to
repair or replace it is greater than the price we paid for the machine when
it was one year old. thus, we don't do betacam anymore at all. we just
refused a tv show because their output requirement was betacam and that's an
area we don't want to go back to.
drd
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>>>>
>>> And what do you do whilest at Disneyland and you fill the hard drive up
>>> the
>>> first day????? Not everyone lugs a laptop around with them on vacation
>>
>> I agree. I think these HD camcorders will be bad and really only for
>> certain peopel. As for me I prefer tapes. This is yet one reaosn, why I
>> refuse to downgrade my nice Sony microcassette tape unit,to one of these
>> digitals. With tape I can archive, with digital forget it. With tape the
>> recorindings last, with digital they will not.
>
> While I think tape is more robust for archiving than HDD, digital on tape
> is more robust than analog on tape.
>
>
>>
>> I'll bet money that in 10 years I will still be able to play my tapes.
>
> Maybe. I have an old Betamax machine sitting in my editing room. When
> that goes, I will have no way of accessing the beta tapes that I have
> (some of which go back to the early 80s, and are still as pristine as the
> day they were recorded).
>
> My digitized media, however, is easily converted as new standards evolve.
> I have data that started its life on 5-1/4" floppies, was moved to 3-1/2"
> floppies, then burned to CDs and finally to DVDs. The data remains
> identical, without degradation of any kind, and readily accessible.
>
>
>> I have audio tapes from 1987 that still play like a charm, and microtapes
>> recorded in 1994 that also play like a charm. With digital everything is
>> chaging so often.
>
> But digital is easily converted without an loss of quality. If I didn't
> have my Betamax, I would have had to dub the video over to VHS and, once
> that started to become obsolete, dub it over again to a DVD recorder --
> that's three analog steps, each one resulting in image degradation. By
> digitizing it directly, I can burn it to DVD today, store the raw video on
> miniDV, and re-digitize to HD-DVD or BlueRay when those come out without
> any additional quality loss.
>
>>
>> For example the audio formats in 1987 are no longer supported on most
>> computers. The standard audio format the Mac used from 1987-1994 is no
>> longer supported under OSX, and in order for me to play all my old
>> recordings I have to use a old classic app, which is not supported on the
>> new Intel macs.
>
> I will not get into the Mac vs. PC debate, except to say that there is
> nothing that I created in 1987, including audio data, that I cannot access
> on my PC today.
>
>>
>> No thank you, I think I'll stick with tape. Law enforcement and many
>> others agree, its the best way.
>>
>> DVD will be dead in 10 years, and it will be hard to find players to read
>> the discs.
>
> So what? DVD is a delivery vehicle, not a recording vehicle. MiniDV may
> be dead in 10 years, but long before it dies, the digital data that it
> stores can be transferred to whatever is the latest and greatest medium of
> the moment.
>
>>The audio formats of today will probably have a hard tiem playing on the
>>computers of 10 years.
>
> I doubt that. Data is data. It's very easy to write software that
> handles varied digital formats -- it's far harder to build hardware that
> will read an obsolete analog format. If you think not, try finding a way
> to view 1" helical scan video tapes.
>
>>
>>
>> No thanks I'll stick with my tapes!
>>
>>
>> John
>>
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