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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
