[Rich Winter]

Costs are far lower than you’d think. Used Adaptec SCSI Cards are about $10 on ebay. The right cable might set you back another $20 or so. That said I wouldn’t base my decision on cost.

I still deliver all of my projects on DLT as it’s a more reliable medium than a dvd-r (especially for DVD-9’s). I find that clients are far happier spending a little bit more on a few blank tapes up front, than running into an issue at replication.

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[Rich Winter]

Chances are what you have is not parallel, but rather 50 Pin Centronics SCSI. I’m guessing it’s a DLT4000. You can find very cheap cables, cards, drives, etc., on the used market. (ebay, craigslist, etc.)

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[Rich Winter]

exactly.

[Rich Winter]

Scale down from 3200×1800 to 720×480 using Bicubic Sharper. You’ll have an anamorphic image at this point, but if you change the pixel aspect ratio to widescreen, you’ll see it in its correct aspect ratio.

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