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.
I've had many hard drives fail, but not tapes, especially if we only use them once, then archive them. Besides, when a hard drive fails, recovery is tedious. When tapes fail, they don't fail entirely. Usually it's only one point. No biggie to lose a few seconds of video by repairing the tape. A failed hard drive will lose most, if not all of your data.
When you record video on SD cards, is it always compressed? How about on HD or SSD?
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