Re: [PRODIG] Which DVD?

[Jeff Smith]

According to a tech artical in our local paper here in Seattle, it seems that there is a bit of a war on which format will emerge as standard. Currently there is DVD-Ram, DVD-R, DVD+R, and a couple others that I may have not included. All are not the same, and the powers that be are currently waging a quiet war over what will be the accepted 'standard' for the industry

Might pay to wait this one out a little longer, but I pity those who need to archive off the larger files from the newer backs with the Philips 11mp - Kodak 12mp, Sinar 54 chips. I've been hoping to upgrade to the Phillips 11mp, but think I'll wait to see if the DVD situation comes to a head first. At the current price for external 120GB firewire drives, you could nearly afford to buy a stack of them and use them for long term storage

Craig Auckland wrote

Easy. If you have maybe 170 GB+ of images then CDs become slightly
cumbersome; 30-50 DVDs seems better than 200-300 CDs (per year!). Things
must move forward. And DVDRs cost about 45p so cheaper per mb than CD
storage. Speed may be an issue today; tomorrow it's no problem.

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Jeff Smith

Smith/Walker Design and Photography

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Seattle, WA  98138
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