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Should there be any differences between recording onto tape or hard disk other than shock protection being an issue on hard disks?

My brother's got one of the Sony hard-disk ones: he got it past the missus by claiming it was for my niece's first steps. He uses it loads, and the only problem with it I've heard him mention is the archival problem of the ever-mounting hundreds of Gbytes of baby footage he's shot on it.

I guess the other problem, as one of the Wikipedia pages mentions, is that when your 60Gb or whatever is full, which doesn't take all that long, that's it until you can get it to a PC or laptop. You can't just whack another tape in like you can with the old-school ones.

Peter