Topic: DAT VS. NJB3

[Nick Graham]

As far as "listening" - I just meant - you dont need the JB3 after the initial recording...I can only play a dat tape on one thing...

Isnt a DATA format preferable for archiving...?

You could store your JB3 transfered wavs as data files on a DDS drive/tape and have the best of both worlds...

As far as the "when I leave the show" argument...well - you got me on that one...I concede.

Check. Understand now...

Many valid points for both, be glad we've all got a choice. At least we're not having to use analog!

[nickgregory]

Isnt a DATA format preferable for archiving...?

a DAT tape is data, just like a JB3...bits are bits, no matter what their on

[kfrinkle]

I will trust my data to DVDs, not tape, but that is just me.  Either way, one should always back up your back ups every 5-10 years.

[nickgregory]

I will trust my data to DVDs, not tape, but that is just me. Either way, one should always back up your back ups every 5-10 years.

not to drive this argument out but DATA tapes have been used for far longer than DVDs have been in existence, and any statements as to the life of DVDs is an estimate at best as they have not been around longer to prove that in....

[hexyjones]

Isnt a DATA format preferable for archiving...?

a DAT tape is data, just like a JB3...bits are bits, no matter what their on

well - yes and no...I think...

An Audio DAT only gets to go past the head once(theoretically) and must do so at a rate that will produce a real time data stream...

A data DAT - I think - (someone -t me if Im wrong)...is more like a big slow hardrive...and handles data in more in a more exact way...

[wbrisette]

  Perhaps that is why i have 2 JB3s right now.

That, or the spare parts should one break. The JB3 is a fine piece of gear, but ultimately it's not the answer either. However, it is part of the growth chain. I see all the new small recordable devices as part of the same chain that will at some point give people who can't afford several thousand dollars the same playing field as those more expensive devices.

There are pluses and minuses to not running tape, I do in some ways missing having tape, but then again, it is also nice not to have to spend 2 hours transferring a 2 hour show to the computer. The minus however is we don't know how long DVDs or CDs will really last.

Wayne

[Todd R]

The minus however is we don't know how long DVDs or CDs will really last.

True, I suppose, but I am more worried about whether there'll be a windoze se-nt-xp version 197.b3 that will read shn files and flac files in the year 2020.  I've got my masters stored on cdrs on cd spindles in a cool, dry place (very dry actually here in CO).  And my bet is that they are much more likely to last longer than the programs that can read them will continue to be available on whatever passes for bill gates' latest hoax perpetrated on the american people.  This all assuming that I am too lazy to keep transferring them into new and improved codec formats, which is a pretty safe bet.

[kfrinkle]

I write all my recordings to dvd in wav format with an md5 checksum.  I got the DVDs for it, and I think it best, because yes, in the end, FLAC might go out of style 15 years from now (I know I dont even touch SHN anymore....)

[Todd R]

Oh yeah, and this is all assuming there'll be some kind of optical drive in a pc in 2020 that can read CDRs after DVDs have already run their course and we're using some kind of sub-micron solid state RAM thingamajiggy.

[Nick Graham]

Oh yeah, and this is all assuming there'll be some kind of optical drive in a pc in 2020 that can read CDRs after DVDs have already run their course and we're using some kind of sub-micron solid state RAM thingamajiggy.

Exactly, but I'll still have my Tascam home deck for DAT transfers

 

[kfrinkle]

True, originally I had all my shit backed up to CDR.  Then I went and put it on DVD.  Now I even have a backup copy of alot of my shit on a hard drive ( I got 750gb of hard space, almost always full).  When the next best thing comes out, youre damned right I am gonna move to that!