DVD for RunRev?

[Erik Hansen]

--- Ian Wood <ian at azurevision.co.uk> wrote:

> But only for short-term use, if you are backing
up much stuff or 
> archiving then HDs are just going to cost too
> much.  And would you 
> really trust it to be uncorrupted when you
> connect it up five years 
> later?  Drives are much handier, but also much
> more fragile, dropping a 
> DVD in a case is not going to have the same
> catastrophic effect as 
> dropping the external drive.
> 
> In other words, short-term backup on a drive
> yes, but for longer term 
> backup DVD or tape is likely to work out much
cheaper and more reliable.

this is shocking news.
i thought tape was the worst.

> At the moment there ARE no other practical
> options for video if you 
> want to play it on a computer.  There are a lot
of people out there who 
> don't have broadband access, and even if they
do it'll take a day or 
> two to download a DVD-quality movie.

thanks for the info & advice.
looks like  buying the built in DVD burner
is a good investment. the Powerbook page
is confusing in that you can get a
$2600 SuperDrive 15" or a $2000 ComboDrive
15". then the $2000 model gives you the 
option of getting the SuperDrive drive
for $200 more. same term on different
logical levels. nor is it clear that the
extra $200 buys iDVD... 

then there are all of the external DVD
burners from $100 to $1000. more to learn.
it never stops, does it?

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erik at erikhansen.org    http://www.erikhansen.org

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