We may be at the end of an era, but beta and VHS won't give in without a fight, I'm a master control operator for our local NBC affiliate and we still have an odetics beta tape machine, purchased back in 94, twelve years and I look at that beast with such disdain because it is so freakin huge! and to do the same job that one digital server does for the commercials for our sister station. While other stations are upgrading to fully digital stations (i.e. news, operations, production, master control) we "cannot afford the upgrade". Beta because it is a better product that VHS has held it's own and will continue to serve a vital function to the media. Although the video that we record to analog went from analog to digital beemed thousands of miles into space and back to be prossesed from digital back to analog onto Beta tapes that shouldn't be run through the machine more than 50 times so that they maintain integrity. Tapes probably get run closer to 300+ times through our VTRs. I would like to see Beta scrapped, but while we are at it sattelite's are also on the decline due to network video servers which we are now pulling a show off of. As to the idea of throwing your TV out, for someone who watches 12 hours of it a day, I'd highly recommend it, of course if everyone stopped watching TV I'd have to find another job.
Let's all give a big congradulations to Franklin Delano Roosevelt for applying a band-aid to a broken leg all those years ago. If we were more concerned with practicing ethical money management than we were with gathering all the money in the world and sticking it in our ears back in the 20s we wouldn't be in this predicament. Let it be a lesson to all of you Slashdot members and readers, what has history taught us? Look ahead and come out on top.
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We may be at the end of an era, but beta and VHS won't give in without a fight, I'm a master control operator for our local NBC affiliate and we still have an odetics beta tape machine, purchased back in 94, twelve years and I look at that beast with such disdain because it is so freakin huge! and to do the same job that one digital server does for the commercials for our sister station. While other stations are upgrading to fully digital stations (i.e. news, operations, production, master control) we "cannot afford the upgrade". Beta because it is a better product that VHS has held it's own and will continue to serve a vital function to the media. Although the video that we record to analog went from analog to digital beemed thousands of miles into space and back to be prossesed from digital back to analog onto Beta tapes that shouldn't be run through the machine more than 50 times so that they maintain integrity. Tapes probably get run closer to 300+ times through our VTRs. I would like to see Beta scrapped, but while we are at it sattelite's are also on the decline due to network video servers which we are now pulling a show off of. As to the idea of throwing your TV out, for someone who watches 12 hours of it a day, I'd highly recommend it, of course if everyone stopped watching TV I'd have to find another job.
Let's all give a big congradulations to Franklin Delano Roosevelt for applying a band-aid to a broken leg all those years ago. If we were more concerned with practicing ethical money management than we were with gathering all the money in the world and sticking it in our ears back in the 20s we wouldn't be in this predicament. Let it be a lesson to all of you Slashdot members and readers, what has history taught us? Look ahead and come out on top.