Belgian chos - not my favourite.
Remeber Betamax vcr's? Sony only stopped building nerw ones last year, so there will be many around for many more years to come for those still wanting to archive there betamax home movies to something a little more up to date.
DVD won't be aorund much longer either as solid state starts to take over.....
My prefered method of archive is minidv tape, and I wouldn't archive anything truly important to a compressed format such as mpeg2 to hdd.
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I was one that took the BetaMax road when the BetaMax vs VHS competition came about. My original Camcorder and player quit some years ago. I finally managed to get another player a few months ago via Ebay. However I have not seen a Betamax in any store for at least 10 years. So I would guess that Sony has not been shipping them to the US, if they just stopped manufacturing them.skier-hughes wrote:Belgian chos - not my favourite.
Remeber Betamax vcr's? Sony only stopped building nerw ones last year, so there will be many around for many more years to come for those still wanting to archive there betamax home movies to something a little more up to date.
DVD won't be aorund much longer either as solid state starts to take over.....
My prefered method of archive is minidv tape, and I wouldn't archive anything truly important to a compressed format such as mpeg2 to hdd.
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I archive to DVD - DVD blanks are cheap and since they are the same media as our final result is stored too, then whatever longevity you expect for your output you can expect for your archive 
I keep each project on a separate HDD partition and use Image For Windows to archive the entire partition to DVD. Since I do all my editting in avi, that means that when I archive a typical 1 hour project, I use 3 DVDs for the archive (I don't bother archiving the .iso file - just the input files).
There are other programs that do a similar job - but I can recommend Image for Windows and it is shareware - so you can try before you buy The nice thing also about Image for Windows (as opposed to Norton Ghost for example) is that it will work while Windows is running i.e. you don't have to reboot into a stand-a-lone DOS mode - and tie up your computer while performing the archive.
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I keep each project on a separate HDD partition and use Image For Windows to archive the entire partition to DVD. Since I do all my editting in avi, that means that when I archive a typical 1 hour project, I use 3 DVDs for the archive (I don't bother archiving the .iso file - just the input files).
There are other programs that do a similar job - but I can recommend Image for Windows and it is shareware - so you can try before you buy
The nice thing also about Image for Windows (as opposed to Norton Ghost for example) is that it will work while Windows is running i.e. you don't have to reboot into a stand-a-lone DOS mode - and tie up your computer while performing the archive. Peter