Re: [AV Media Matters] reel-to-reel video tape

[jeffkreines@mindspring.com]

>There may be a nearly un-compressed method - digitizing into a non-linear
>editor, such as the Matrox Digisuite (actually lossless compression) and
>back up to hard drive or some tape back-up. It would be very slow and
>expensive.

And in 15 years, when there are no Digisuites to be found, how do you
reclaim the data?  Digibeta, while compressed, is a standard, it's 10
bit, has decent 20-bit audio.  The tapes can be cloned in the future
easily.