Richmond Legal Video, Inc.

Digitization on CD-Rom and DVD:

While still a recommended medium on which to record your depositions, videotape, whether digital or analog, is not always the most convenient media on which to view and store them. Digitization to CD-Rom or DVD is often a great convenience.

• To play a videotape, a VCR and television/video monitor are typically required. A CD-Rom or DVD disk can be played right on your desktop pc or on your laptop - at the office, at home, or wherever you can access a computer. Imagine pulling out a VCR and television while commuting on the train. With your video on disk, viewing your deposition is as simple as turning on your laptop.
   

• Let's talk storage. A week's worth of deposition testimony on videotape requires about a document box for storage. The same amount of testimony recorded to disk can be included in a 3-ring binder. Multiply that for a case that includes hundreds of witnesses and that document box is just one of dozens. A storage room dedicated solely to housing the deposition videotapes from a single case can be replaced by a single shelf of binders.
   

• When videotapes are duplicated, there is some loss of quality in creating the next generation. Digital media suffers no such loss, and is much less susceptible to degradation or damage over many years of storage. Your DVD is likely to look as good as the day it was produced, even ten years from now.