[walter biscardi] “[Bill Davis] “So be VERY cautious before you waste money going from digital to tape – only to force the broadcaster immediately transcode it from tape to digital in order to air it.”
I don’t thing there are any networks left that broadcast from tape. They ingest the tape and then file the tape away in a library. But they are still requesting HDCAM tape from us.”
A good friend of mine just got a job doing that, in San Jose, CA. No kidding, from 8 PM to 4 AM he puts HDCAM tapes into a deck and then onto a server, which then sends to where they need to go, before the broadcast day begins.