[LINK] Looking for some advice from the link 'brain'

Adam Todd link at todd.inoz.com
Tue Apr 3 17:29:39 AEST 2007


At 04:04 PM 3/04/2007, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
My father converted our 1960s/70s 8mm homemovies to videotape when the
>film was deteriorating badly in the 1980s. Much of the content has been
>lost.
>
>I am now wondering how well the modern MiniDV tape will last. I have
>been producing edited versions in Vorbis/Theora/OGG - should I look at
>DVD for preservation purposes?

DVD is heavily compressed and reduced in quality compared to 
miniDV.  miniDV seems to hold well.  I've got tapes now edging on 7 years 
still perfect.  Just look after them properly.

When the BlueRay format settles what I'd suggest you do is what I will, but 
a burner, copy 26g of DV stream to the disks and set them aside.  Now you 
have dual format protection.

Of course, 300+ gig hard drives aren't that expensive either.  When you 
compare a 184 minute DVCAM tape at $66 which is roughly 36 Gigs, against a 
300 gig hard drive at around $150 which is, almost 10 times the capacity, 
it's really quite cheap to keep your data on the fly drive :)

10 tapes is a log bigger than a 300G hard drive!





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