On 08/28/2014 07:45 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> > I thought we were talking about the future here! The 80s wants its
>> > property back!!
>> >
>> > Also Hi8 is an analogue format so everything in the post is plain
>> > bollocks! Maybe you meant Digital8?? Still 15 years old and any tape
>> > format is pretty much dead and definitely not the future!
> Not this one, it uses metal tape in the same casette as a Hi-8 would use,
> but about a tenner more expensive. and is "digital Hi-8" format.
>
> Reasonably sharp too at 720p. Go look it up, its a Sony HandyCam DCR-
> TRV460 NTSC. and about 11 years old IIRC. And one of the first with
> lithium batteries. I can't quickly find the charger, but after laying for
> at least 2 years, it still fires right up.
>
> I have shot several weddings with it, processed it down to fit on a dvd
> using kino and sold the disks several times now. Many many times sharper
> than a vhs deck.
..and I think there's a notable point here in the ability to read and
write to a device on the chain in realtime is a question of bandwidth
regardless of what the media is.
-Sam
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