Topic: SP is taking HiMD preorders

[George]

no cost for media.

But theoretically, couldn't you just reuse a few MD's over and over without any loss of quality? It's not like dat/dds where you lose quality reusing them, is it?

I wouldn't erase any MD masters of a show i taped, would you?

[zhianosatch]

Nope, I keep em all.

[gewwang]

no cost for media.

But theoretically, couldn't you just reuse a few MD's over and over without any loss of quality? It's not like dat/dds where you lose quality reusing them, is it?

I wouldn't erase any MD masters of a show i taped, would you?

So what are HD recorder people going to do, archive hard drives?

Personally, I don't really care what happens to my dat masters (since I tape in 16/44, viewpoint might be different in 16/48). Once I've extracted the audio and shn'ed and uploaded to some friend's ftp servers, I'm happy with a shn cdr in hand and knowing that if something happened to it that my server friends would be able to hook me up.

[George]

no cost for media.

But theoretically, couldn't you just reuse a few MD's over and over without any loss of quality? It's not like dat/dds where you lose quality reusing them, is it?

I wouldn't erase any MD masters of a show i taped, would you?

So what are HD recorder people going to do, archive hard drives?

Personally, I don't really care what happens to my dat masters (since I tape in 16/44, viewpoint might be different in 16/48). Once I've extracted the audio and shn'ed and uploaded to some friend's ftp servers, I'm happy with a shn cdr in hand and knowing that if something happened to it that my server friends would be able to hook me up.

As for the HD recorder peeps, nah, i would archive the raw wav i transfer over on my pc.  As for dats and MD's, i safe keep them, even though i do have transfers sitting on my pc (as shn and wav) and will probably backup to dvd-rw eventually, i'm just paranoid like that.  I always like to have multiple sources to retrieve them, as you do with ftp.

[recordista]

So what are HD recorder people going to do, archive hard drives?

Many of us who have been working with significant quantities of data for any length of time have learned to keep several copies in different locations.  Right now, hard drives offer the lowest cost per gigabyte and it's trivial to replicate the data.  Having all the data available in online rather than offline storage allows automated checksum validation without human interrvention (feeding disks.)