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Posted by Bernie on 12/23/06 22:25
Agree with the others - stick to tape, and get it on to a well used
digital format - DigiBeta if you can afford it, DV if you can't. Both
these have hugh professional user-bases which will future-proof them
for a good long time.
Puuting them on high quality arrays means you have to store the arrays
- big lumps of machinery - and at (say) 13Gb per hour of DV you'll be
putting 23 hours of material on a 300Gb set of drives. That's a lot of
eggs in one basket. Of course you could compress more than DV - Xvid
or whatever - but such compression formats are ever changing and
transient, and makes for even more eggs. Can I still use the audio I
digitised on my Atari ST? No I can't, it's gone, dead, and so will your
stuff be if you put it on discs. And, of course, a couple of years on,
someone new goes into the library and steals a drive out of one of
these old dusty stacks for something he needs right now, and goodbye to
your archive. Or knocks it off the rack - same result.
Stick to tape, but as is obvious, it's going to take you a really long
time. The BBC converted much of its huge archive from 2" to 1" just in
time for digital to make it out of date - and then it chose Panasonic
D3, which lasted all of five years. Now it's all on DigiBeta, which
should last a while yet as long as they maintain a few players.
Bernie
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