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madelonw · 08-01-2025, 01:45 PM

It's really past time for the news and other media to get with the times. The clips the media plays are NOT ON TAPE! They are digital files. These files can be modified, corrupted, and otherwise digitally damaged, but you can't plop a video tape on somebody's desk and say "Aha!"

I am so tired of hearing about the epstein jail "tape!" He killed himself in 2019. It seems to me that we are being fed a line of total bullcrap about tapes. Did the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan still use technology outdated for nearly 20 years? IMHO there ARE NO TAPES; there are videos, perhaps stored on some medium (like CDs or DVDs which I also doubt). In all probability the VIDEOS are stored on hard drives.

The whole "let's go to the video tape" is so last century.

08-01-2025, 01:45 PM	#3009
madelonw Connoisseur Posts: 81 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2009 Location: FL Device: A Couple of Kindles, an iPad, a Windows 11 PC, and a Pixel 9a phone	Let's Go to the Video "Tape?" It's really past time for the news and other media to get with the times. The clips the media plays are NOT ON TAPE! They are digital files. These files can be modified, corrupted, and otherwise digitally damaged, but you can't plop a video tape on somebody's desk and say "Aha!" I am so tired of hearing about the epstein jail "tape!" He killed himself in 2019. It seems to me that we are being fed a line of total bullcrap about tapes. Did the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan still use technology outdated for nearly 20 years? IMHO there ARE NO TAPES; there are videos, perhaps stored on some medium (like CDs or DVDs which I also doubt). In all probability the VIDEOS are stored on hard drives. The whole "let's go to the video tape" is so last century.