With your attitude why not just flush everything and buy new on DVD!
650 hours of movies are 650 hours of movies.....
How do you edit a copy of an original tape of , say, "The Matrix"??
From what I calculate, 650 hours of tape will translate to 1300 gigs of data using standard video to mpeg translators such as those used for DVD to IDE. This would result in 7 200gig drives for a cost of $1400 at the present time.(market depending)
Plus your time, which sounds like you are quite willing to do.
With the video on IDE drives you can transfer them to any other media at a later date with no (or minimum) degradation.
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I couldn't agree more!! You hit the nail on the head!
With your attitude why not just flush everything and buy new on DVD! 650 hours of movies are 650 hours of movies..... How do you edit a copy of an original tape of , say, "The Matrix"??
From what I calculate, 650 hours of tape will translate to 1300 gigs of data using standard video to mpeg translators such as those used for DVD to IDE. This would result in 7 200gig drives for a cost of $1400 at the present time.(market depending) Plus your time, which sounds like you are quite willing to do. With the video on IDE drives you can transfer them to any other media at a later date with no (or minimum) degradation.