[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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