Originally Posted by xenigo

I no longer use tapes, my camera records 48mbps H.264 to solid state media. I believe most are shooting AVCHD now because of the low cost, but I believe a fair amount are still shooting HDV. I'm no longer using optical media because it doesn't make much sense with the price of inexpensive 2tb HDD's these days. Plus, HDD data has a much greater life expectancy than that of optical media.