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Posted by Richard Crowley on 12/22/06 09:47

"Tony" wrote ...
> This is completely incorrect:
>
>>My shop had a similar situation and that's what we have: a temp, a
>>deck, and a Panasonic DVD recorder buring to DVD-R at the highest
>>quality setting. Even though it's mpeg-2 it is still better than the
>>umatic already.
>
> If yo copied the uncompressed U-Matic video to hard drive, 1 hour
> would take up over 60GB.
> One hour of your U-Matic tape to DVD takes up a couple of GB.
>
> Even better would not to go to DVD at all, which is crap. It looks
> good to average consumers but it
> really is just a massive compression that looks good to the eye. The
> next step would be to transfer
> to miniDV or full DV. Even that would cause a 5:1 compression loss.
>
> Anyway, mp2 is far worse than anything the u-matic recorded. The
> quality can never get better than
> what is on that tape. It can only get worse by compressing the info or
> to record analog. Go with
> the tapes (DV). They will last as long as the U-matics and VHSs out
> there, which is over 20 years if
> stored properly. One scratch on a DVD and say goodbye to the entire
> disk.

Agree completely. It would be a great tragedy to expend
the resources dubbing all that content and end up with
nothing but inferior MPEG (DVD, etc.) to show for it.
Unless, of course it is inconsequential content, but then
why bother dubbing?

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