Posted by Richard Crowley on 04/19/07 14:16

"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?

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