Posted by Bible John on 04/18/06 04:21

> 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 people. As for me I prefer tapes. This is yet one reason, 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.

I'll bet money that in 10 years I will still be able to play my tapes. 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
changing so often.

Some people claim that tape deteriates overtime. Perhaps this is a myth,
because not a single one of my many, many audio tapes has deteriated over
time!

I have about 50 microtapes and about 80-100 audiotapes.

For example the standard and prime audio format that the Mac used in 1987 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. So when I move to Intel (perhaps I kight just move to a PC
when my ibook finally breaks) I will lose all my recordings from the
1994-1999 era.

No thank you, I think I'll stick with tape. Law enforcement and many others
agree, its the best way. Go do some research and see that many still are
using tapes.

The audio formats of today will probably have a hard time playing on the
computers of 10 years.

No thanks I'll stick with my tapes!

They are not dead. What is dead, is digital which wont play on anything in
10 years. Thats whats dead.


John

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to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in
you, with meekness and fear
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