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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zakrosian who wrote (48896)	2/26/1998 9:26:00 AM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

>> However, after reading Philip Davis's account of transferring video to a Jaz cart and seeing that one can apparently only get about 25 minutes on a $99 disc, I held off for the time being.<< Which is exactly what I've been saying all along. Look, I deal with this stuff daily. You can do things the right way, or the the way Iomega wants you to. The right way is to buy a big, fast, reliable external hard drive onto which you can record (digitize) your video/audio. I've seen a big 4 Gig SCSI hard drive going for $364. After editing, and after you print your video back out to tape, or keep it inside your computer for a Quicktime movie, or whatever, you can then save the raw footage or just the final version to whatever medium you desire. This will save a lot of space on your Jaz/SyJet discs. The Iomega way (wrong way) is to buy lots of discs to record onto. Much, much more expensive. Far less reliable.

To: Zakrosian who wrote (48896)	2/26/1998 10:49:00 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

>>I was about to buy a Jaz once Buz was available. However, after reading Philip Davis's account of transferring video to a Jaz cart and seeing that one can apparently only get about 25 minutes on a $99 disc, I held off for the time being.<< Zak - The point of transferring video into a digital medium in the first place is to allow non-linear editing, with the addition of special effects and dissolves, etc. Once you have completed the editing on a section of video, you can transfer it back to video tape. It is true that Jaz disks are too expensive to be used to store video. - Allen