I need to clear out room, so the originals need to go bye-bye in most cases. And after investing so much money in equipment and time in the actual transfers, I don't ever want to have to touch them again anyway.
So, what are my fellow archivists opting for these days?
I was thinking BD-R and BD-R DL discs, since authoring to SD Blu-ray lets me drop the ancient MPEG-2. But then again x264's own developers have lamented the quality of interlaced encoding. Regardless, no problems with bitrates given the 48Mbps mux total and I can also leave the audio uncompressed.
There's always lossless, but is there a single STB-type device that can play any lossless video codec at all? Maybe x264 lossless? If not, are there any that can play uncompressed video?
So, what are my fellow archivists opting for these days?
I was thinking BD-R and BD-R DL discs, since authoring to SD Blu-ray lets me drop the ancient MPEG-2. But then again x264's own developers have lamented the quality of interlaced encoding. Regardless, no problems with bitrates given the 48Mbps mux total and I can also leave the audio uncompressed.
There's always lossless, but is there a single STB-type device that can play any lossless video codec at all? Maybe x264 lossless? If not, are there any that can play uncompressed video?