Archiving

[Gary Adcock]

[tony salgado] “You don’t want to hire a warm body fourteen year old PA who thinks he understand the importance of the digital files. After all he did figured out how to play an Xbox in under a hour.”

com’on tony — he could probably program all of the VCR’s correctly too.

[tony salgado] “My personal solution to all this is to wait it out and see how a clear workflow is established or hold out for the Grass Valley Infinity system.”

Sorry– I will not ever be able to use anything that has iomega media as it’s foundation. I still have nightmares about the now infamous Jaz Drive “clicking” angrily at me in the background, destroying every piece of media I try to get it to read.

Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA

[Ron Shook]

Gary,

[gary adcock] “Sorry– I will not ever be able to use anything that has iomega media as it’s foundation. I still have nightmares about the now infamous Jaz Drive “clicking” angrily at me in the background, destroying every piece of media I try to get it to read.”

Proprietary scare tactics aren’t becoming. Either REV works or it doesn’t, and I find it incomprehensible that TGV would have this much riding on something that doesn’t work. Every company makes blunders at one time or another and perhaps Iomega has made more than some, but it still follows that you can be as good as your current products, however good they are.

Ron Shook

[Graeme Nattress]

Yes, but consumer confidence doesn’t always follow any rule of logic. I had 15 zip drives die in one day. Yes, I know Iomega have better, more reliable products now, but I’m loathe that I give any more of my money to a company that let me down so much all those years ago. This might not make logical sense, but it makes emotional sense.

Graeme

– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP

[Gary Adcock]

[Ron Shook] “Proprietary scare tactics aren’t becoming. Either REV works or it doesn’t, and I find it incomprehensible that TGV would have this much riding on something that doesn’t work.”

As Graeme said – it is an emotional issue.

I have used and discarded literally 100’s of iomega jaz and zip disks and drive units. I actually bought 3 jaz drives just to keep with for the archive of ILM content I worked on in the late 90’s.

I was referring only the truth of the Iomega REV product legacy. ( and it is obvious that I was not the only one burned)

Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA

[James Sullivan]

I think one of the big selling points is not have to spend money on the $30,000 Deck for small production companies. Also there will be no TC breaks!!!! (apparently) Tape is nice however but I guess DVDs could work as well. Maybe this will bring back assistant editors for video production!!!

James