2009 Survey of Digital Storage in Professional Media and Entertainment
Thomas Coughlin · 2009
Results from an on-line survey of SMPTE professionals in February and March, 2009 showed some trends for the use of digital storage in professional content capture, editing and post production, content delivery as well as archiving and digital preservation. The survey revealed the evolution of storage technology for professional video including the growth of flash hard disk drives in content capture, developing trends for content distribution and the growing use of “warm” disk-based archives.