"news.verizon.net" wrote in message ...
I was wondering what is the main reason why quite a few studios are giving
up on their 1" or 2" reel machine and going over to digital?

Could the main reason be as follows:

They are not making any money anymore, and those tapes & machines-heads are
too expensive to buy and maintain respectively???

Yet I have seen a number of studios that only have dummy-computers on thier
desk; just to say that they have computers, but they are NOT using them.
Perhaps the only thing install on them is windows 95 & Mac 9.0. lol

One good side benefit of the abandonment of analog gear is that one
can pick up a really nice analog recording deck for not a lot of $
these days.

Of course, the maintenance & tape costs might still be a concern, as
well as the future of analog tape manufacture in general. The
maintenance factor in analog is a given that needs to be dealt with
continually (cleaning heads, de-magging, alignment, etc.). Digital
gear needs almost no "routine" maintenance as with analog, but when it
goes wrong, it is often not as "user-friendly" as analog to fix, and
back to the factory or service center it goes.

RP