This often meant stopping your seminar or killing time while the recordist changed the tape. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, analog tape required you to physically splice the tape in order to edit it. This meant you either worked from a copy, which had lower fidelity due to being transferred from one tape to another, or you took the risk of cutting your only master tape. This made it difficult to change your mind or make changes days or weeks later. With digital recording we solve all of these problems, while gaining maximum fidelity and clarity.
Digital tape creates no hiss at all.
The only sounds you hear are the ones that were recorded, not the tape itself. Digital recordings can be copied hundreds of times with no perceptible change or degradation. For live recording you can record for over two hours continuously without having to change the tape, while maintaining the highest quality of sound. One of the major advantages of this technology is that tape costs are greatly reduced to roughly 15 per minute. It is during the editing phase though, that digital recording has its greatest advantages.