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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (136657)	6/5/2001 12:39:30 AM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 186894

Jim - I have many hundreds of hours of videotape - maybe thousands of hours, I really have not counted but the tapes fill a closet. Video going back more than 20 years. Lots of good stuff, but lots of not very interesting stuff too. In its present state no one will ever look at most of it - it's just too hard to wade through looking for something that happened maybe sometime in 1986 but on which of the 30 1986 tapes??? Now that professional quality digital editing tools are readily available for DVD authoring, I intend to digitize and organize all of that historical stuff and put the interesting segments on DVD. The older tapes will start to deteriorate over time and DVD is more permanent (or so they tell me). For sure it is a lot easier to find stuff if you put a little thought into organizing the DVD format. Also, now that most PCs will play DVDs, it's a nice way to send around current video to the older kids, and other family. Also, you can capture fairly high quality stills out of the video with some of the newer multi-frame sample boards, and there are things we captured on video but not on still photos that I would like to have. It looks like I can put together a pretty decent video server with over 300GB of high performance storage for under $3K... a year ago that would have been the price of the DVD burner alone.