On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:27:11 -0600 "R. Quenett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
> " Actually, my main reason for not liking
> CD-R's is the amount of data I'm
> " working with. Sometimes I get 500-600mb wave
> files, and I end up using an
> " inordinate number of CDR's on a single
> recording project. Once I get them
>
> When (not often) I have something I care about
> and I don't trust the
> hdds, I master the raw file (the program I use
> will split a file on
> the rare occasion it's that humungous), and/or
> at various mileposts,
> then at the worst I have some work to do over.
I'll consider it, but since I really don't enjoy the audio editing work too
much- I love it when it's done- I'd rather not have to do any of it over.
> " edited up they're smaller, but I don't always
> get the chance to do that. It's
> " looking like tape drive, or what about DVD
> burners? 4.7GB seems like a good
> " size, and I wouldn't mind making movies in
> the future ;-)
>
> Media only come in one size (too small:) and
> dvd blanks were too
> expensive last I looked, some time ago. But,
> eventually...
> The drives are getting cheaper quickly, tho,
> but the format wars
> aren't over yet.
I think a blank is about $2 now, quite a bit more for the RW's. I was looking
at a DVD burner from Sony though that supports all of the current formats. PC
Magazine liked it, but didn't like that it had no packet-writing software. I
don't really care, because Linux has that stuff anyway.
Bob Raymond
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