Posted by Rick Merrill on 04/19/07 14:42

Richard Crowley wrote:
> "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?

Recordings of Town Meeting are worth what next year?
Weddings?
Wild Animal shots that took days or months to get?

Value varies over time, n'est pas?

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