DigiBeta deck for data storage?

[Michael Gissing]

Many years ago at a Sydney SMPTE show, I saw Sony showing off a data storage system, strangely called a Petafile. It was a bank of HDCam machines with a robotic arm that was streaming data to four tape machines and a bank of tapes, so it was like a giant multi tape backup with control software. When I pointed out the problem with the name, they may never have shown it again under that name.

I haven’t seen anything for a digi beta deck and I presume that the data would need to be embedded in a digital video stream, like the original PCM audio recorders. Have you spoken to any techies at Sony?

[Brad Bussé]

Ha-ha, that’s funny. At least the creators of the Peticure pet nail filing machine knew better than to name it the Petifile.

I haven’t yet contact Sony, so I’ll see if they have anything to say about it.

[Bob Flood]

Brad

FWIW, sony has added data capabilitys to the HD XDcam recorder, so in addition to writing video, it will also right data to the XD cam discs, although not on the same disc. Its got a ethernet port (i think its gig e)

not sure if its shipping

I have D1 deck (dvr1000) I know they had a Data version of that format, but the tapes are like 300 apeice!

bee eph

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Kevin Monahan]

Look into LT04 Tape technology.

Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro

[Joe Murray]

Autodesk’s higher end products use visual data recorded on DBeta or HD tape to archive projects. The video gets laid to tape as video, but audio, project files, and certain settings are archived to tape as what looks like static, but is really encoded data that can be retrieved and decoded later. Sure wish this was available as a standalone app, but since it’s not I ended up with an LTO3 tape drive instead.

Joe Murray
Edit at Joe’s
Charlotte, NC