[geeks] I haven't gotten into this yet but I need some advice

[Ethan]

> > Why not just tell her to go DigiBeta if we are going to consider that?  Not
> > that I wouldn't mind being able to afford it for myself.
> 
> That's not a bad idea.  She doesn't need any digibeta hardware, just needs
> to find someone who can transfer onto digibeta.  I know that the TV and
> video repair shop in my home-town can, so I'm sure you can find someone
> nearby.  She'll then need to pay someone again to transfer from digibeta
> to $other_format when it comes time to do anything with the data.  But then,
> if she watches the existing media and just uses digibeta as a backup for
> when they wear out, that's not really a problem.
> 
> Again, you should be careful about storing digibeta, although it's a lot
> more robust than plenty of other formats.

Betacam SP is analog correct?