On Sun, 5 May 2002 19:11:29 -0400, "Alan" wrote:

>I'm sure I read a few years ago that the new DV camcorders would have a hard
>disk drive in them, doing away with tape...has that not happened?
>This is new to me, and all the reading I've been doing about DV states
>tapes....hmm...

Big-capacity, small-physically, cheap, reliable...
And, how are you going to archive the contents of
those drives? On tape, with a copy step added....? ;-)