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I wonder if the person asking about tapes is a young person with an infatuation with the concept of tape but has ever actually experienced a VCR?

Vandeilo asks:

You say that video masters are stored on magnetic tapes, not dissimilar to VHS tapes.

Most masters are sent to American companies on hard drives these days. Many of them don't even have HDCam decks, and when they get a tape, they have to hire an outside company to get them transferred to files.

There is a huge problem with digital preservation right now, as there's no really good, solid way to keep the huge amounts of data preserved for a long time. Replicated DVDs and Blu-rays, for all their faults, are as good as we're going to get for a while, in that regard. In that way, the consumer formats are a ways ahead of the professional ones.

Are the critics of the show being too harsh, considering its low budget and tiny staff? Maybe, maybe not. But let me ask you another question: why does it matter? Why do you care what these other people think?

Public opinion of a show matters. If enough people like a show, we'll get more of it, we'll get merchandise for it, we'll have communities built around it, etc. It's completely logical for fans to want to maximize the cultural imprint of a show they like.

This site spends a lot of time defending anime in general and touting its virtues, odd behavior if what people think doesn't matter.

if I get assigned a trial on Friday and end up on the jury, I might be indisposed for another week yet.

It's really really frustrating, especially during summer when everybody wants to do things.

So I'm curious as to why shows like Parasyte and Rowdy Sumo Wrestler Matsutaro!! are being made.

I wish more old manga would get anime adaptions... still praying for a Battle Angel Alita or Gunsmith Cats series.

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Are the critics of the show being too harsh, considering its low budget and tiny staff? Maybe, maybe not. But let me ask you another question: why does it matter? Why do you care what these other people think?

Public opinion of a show matters. If enough people like a show, we'll get more of it, we'll get merchandise for it, we'll have communities built around it, etc. It's completely logical for fans to want to maximize the cultural imprint of a show they like.

This site spends a lot of time defending anime in general and touting its virtues, odd behavior if what people think doesn't matter.

Mr. sickVisionz wrote:

I wonder if the person asking about tapes is a young person with an infatuation with the concept of tape but has ever actually experienced a VCR?

hm, that could be a possibility.

Have you see this?
Sony, Panasonic Announce Archival Disc Standard Coming in 2015
They plan to start at 300GB per disc and go up to 1TB

For a tape, you just put it in the tape player and press play. With DVD/BD, you have to muck about with menus and unskippable intros and previews and stuff like that.

For tapes, even if they had previews, you could just fast forward past them, not rewind before them, or copy the tape and cut them off.