Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/19

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Subject: [Leica] HDTV goes back to the future - and records on TAPE!
From: Edward Caliguri <caliguri@rcn.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 08:10:32 -0400
 
Well-
    Wait till you see the new High Definition TV recorders! ALL are TAPE!!
NO DVD ---yet!
    Ed
> 
> ..I seriously doubt that film is "outta here." Kodak has always had a
> history of joining in with new technologies. Certainly they are deeply
> committed to film as it is their core business but they are smart to
> explore digital. I remember 20+ years ago all the howls from the motion
> picture film folks as Kodak started to sell VHS video tape (they only
> sold somebody else's tape under the Kodak logo). While digital is all
> the talk it is interesting to see (on the various lists I subscribe to)
> the number of people who have switched over to digital, and then see
> many of them announce they are moving back to film. Someday it will be a
> completely digital world, but not in my lifetime.
> 
> sl

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