Comments on: Don’t Forget the Lyrics http://www.variousandsundry.com/2008/12/04/dont-forget-the-lyrics/ The random non-photographic musings of Augie De Blieck Jr. Sun, 03 Jul 2011 04:03:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Phil Foxx http://www.variousandsundry.com/2008/12/04/dont-forget-the-lyrics/comment-page-1/#comment-192625 Phil Foxx Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:45:49 +0000 http://www.variousandsundry.com/2008/12/04/dont-forget-the-lyrics/#comment-192625 "It’s 2008 and they only want submission TAPES, not DVDs. Hunh." Tapes are more reliable than recordable DVDs. I've had to do presentations every year at a convention, and the first year I went to DVD (2006), nothing worked right. I had multiple backups with both DVD-R and DVD+R, one laptop and one DVD player that never gave me trouble. Until that day. Things paused and skipped and didn't work right. Coincidentally, there was someone who worked in the TV business at that convention, and he told one of my partners that the very troubles I had are the reason they still preferred tapes over DVDs. Funny, isn't it? All this technology and the old way can still be better. “It’s 2008 and they only want submission TAPES, not DVDs. Hunh.”

Tapes are more reliable than recordable DVDs. I’ve had to do presentations every year at a convention, and the first year I went to DVD (2006), nothing worked right. I had multiple backups with both DVD-R and DVD+R, one laptop and one DVD player that never gave me trouble. Until that day. Things paused and skipped and didn’t work right.

Coincidentally, there was someone who worked in the TV business at that convention, and he told one of my partners that the very troubles I had are the reason they still preferred tapes over DVDs.

Funny, isn’t it? All this technology and the old way can still be better.

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