Magnetic tape in professional recording has taken a nose dive while flash memory is the rising video storage format according the survey results.

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In theory, media companies that are already using the Flash format for their millions of video files will welcome the ability to put them directly onto users' hard drives.

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These PVRs differ from most, however, as they can record content from television or any other attached source (i.e. a camcorder), and transfer the video in MPEG4 format directly to an attached USB flash drive.

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