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Posted by Richard Crowley on 09/20/07 22:30
"Mark F" wrote ...
> "Richard Crowley"wrote in part:
> (regarding tape reuse)
>> OTOH, for formats like mini-DV, if it isn't worth $5 to
>> keep the original camera footage, why bother shooting
>> it at all? Isn't the original footage worth at least $5/hour?
>> Or if you are shooting for $$$, the $35 for a DVCAM (etc.)
>> tape? Seems equivalent to rinsing out and re-using
>> paper towels.
>>
>> Also, re-using tapes is like playing Russian roulette.
>> You never know which recording will fail because you
>> tried to re-use it once too often.
> Some therapists tape all sessions. Most tapes are never even
> looked at.
"Most" implies that *some* of the tapes ARE looked at.
> This is 40 or so hours a week.
>
> Storing tapes is expensive in terms of office space, so they have to
> either reuse, erase, or destroy the tapes - the old tapes can't just
> be thrown out or given away.
>
> Using each 10 times isn't much of a risk and reduces the
> amount of toxic material used each year from 2000 to 200.
> (Saves a bunch of time also, and a few thousand $US/year also.)
If you just routinely reuse ALL the tapes, why bother at all?
How do you know that you won't need to review one that
got re-used 3 times subsequently? Must be some other
decision criteria here that you didn't mention, or else it
makes no sense.
> Probably should move to disk in a couple of years, but too risky at
> this time.)
Seems ideal to me. They wil last 3-5 years before self-destructing,
and they are much cheaper and more compact to store, etc.
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