|  | Posted by Rick Merrill on 04/19/07 14:42 
Richard Crowley wrote:> "Rick Merrill"wrote ...
 >> Richard Crowley wrote:
 >> ...
 >>> Simply saving the original camera tapes is SO MUCH
 >>> BETTER (and easier, faster, and cheaper) than ANYTHING
 >>> you can do with your computer that it is not even debatable.
 >>
 >> Hard drives are now cheaper than tapes. Saving to hard drive
 >> and skipping the tape altogether pays off if you want to grab
 >> bits and pieces of the past recordings for a mix-up later.
 >
 > I have had several hard drives fail. I no longer consider them
 > to be a viable archival media.  If you have had better luck, I
 > hope it continues.  But I recommend not throwing away the
 > original tapes.
 >
 > Even if hard drives were FREE they wouldn't be "cheaper than
 > tapes" because you still have the cost (time=money) of transferring
 > the video.
 >
 >>> If the video isn't worth the $5/hour cost of the tape, then
 >>> it wasn't worth shooting, and not worth archiving, either.
 >>
 >> It depends on the time-value of the content to the clientell doesn't it.
 >
 > I don't think I understand the argument?
 
 Recordings of Town Meeting are worth what next year?
 Weddings?
 Wild Animal shots that took days or months to get?
 
 Value varies over time, n'est pas?
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