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Digital Video

Sounds like converting DV tapes over to digital video doesn't make much sense for archival yet. First at 3.6MB/sec of recording DV disk space is chewed up quick.

Recommendations:
http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/dv_archiving_2002_11_26.htm

  • Hard drives aren't suited for archival due to drive lifetimes and high failure rates.
  • Archiving to DVD is reasonable since it has a 100 year lifetime.
  • DV tapes have a 10-15 year lifetime, assuming not much actual usage of the tape.

See forums:
http://www.camcorderinfo.com/bbs/forumdisplay.php?forumid=5

Posted by ryans on July 27, 2003 08:27 PM |

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