Posted by jakdedert on 05/16/06 21:05

David McCall wrote:
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> Yeah, I heard the same thing about chip cameras vs. tubes,
> analog vs. digital, Phonograph records vs. CDs, Synthesizers
> VS organs and pianos, Horseless carriages vs. those with horses.
>
4-Tracks vs. 8-tracks vs. cassettes? Beta vs. VHS? 78's vs. 33's?

> They were all right on the day they said it, but they became wrong
> much sooner than they ever imagined.
>
Wrong in that the 'new' standard was supplanted? I'm not sure what you
mean.

> Of course there will still be people 10 years from now still using SD.
> The question is; will those be the people you want to cater to?
>
It doesn't matter what you capture the footage on, as long as you can
losslessly edit it, and then dup it to some common format for
distribution...whatever the popular format happens to be at the moment.
I'm duping things to DVD which were created before DVD was....

> You are perfectly free to snub your nose at HDV. It doesn't begin
> to compare to the systems that cost 10 times as much. However
> people that have jumped on that bandwagon can offer HDV for
> less than you could even if you were using Betacam and tube cameras.
>
> I have not jumped on that bandwagon either, but then I didn't even
> buy a professional DV deck (DSR-45) until last year because I
> didn't want to go there. Why would I want to compete with everybody
> that had a DV camera and a personal computer? I wanted to go to
> Digital Betacam, but unfortunately my clients didn't have a need for it.
> They eventually needed DV though :-(
>
For what...it doesn't matter. You can dub to any format for which you
have recording gear...some of my clients ask for VHS.

jak


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