[ Thanks to Inkslinger for this link.
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“Expensive and error-prone digital tapes has forced BBC UK, one
of the world’s largest television broadcasters, to look at using
computers running Linux to help produce its programs.“Speaking at the annual linux.conf.au Linux and open source
conference in Melbourne, Stuart Cunningham from BBC research, said
digital tapes are slow to copy them it must be done in
real-time…”