Check out the Red cams, these things are shooting and putting out 4k. No, tape is not going anywhere, but the guys on the fringe, the guys who are doing new things have already switched to HD...especially on the web. Also of note, more vaporware that you can actually buy came out earlier this year....6gbit SATA.
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Tony B <[email protected]> wrote: > I haven't seen any great evidence that tape is going away any time > soon. Not for several years anyway. It has too many _perceived_ > advantages. Real or not doesn't matter to someone shelling out big > bucks *today*. Note I said _shooters_, not companies. The expense to > maintain tape is a big factor for bean counters; the danger of losing > an entire day's work to a file system glitch scares the bejeebers out > of shooters (on tape it would likely just be a momentary dropout). > > I think you're wrong about compression. Of course, there are good ways > to compress and bad ways. All current direct to hard drive methods I'm > aware of use *some* sort of compression, simply because uncompressed > is just too wasteful. Even older SD DV cams have always used 5:1 > compression. > > Also, it's hard to tell the difference between 'flash cards' and hard > drives as it relates to digital video. The P2 cards Panasonic is > selling like hotcakes are flash, but internally resemble more of a SSD > RAID. > > > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:46 AM, John Duncan Yoyo > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Tape is a dead to dying media. It is expensive and degrades over time. > > Recorders can be cumbersome. Flash cards are compressed so a bunch of > data > > and quality is lost. Transfer time starts to become an issue. Direct to > > hard drive starts to look better and better. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
