In the case of Audio, I prefer the warmer tones of analog...in the case of video which usally uses analog sound, digitally upgraded, I prefer digital. In the case of editing I prefer non-linear, both in audio and video. digital recordings taken from an analog source sound better than strictly taken from a DAT or other digital recording device...I prefer it be recorded on analog and backed up on digital as most recordings have been for some time...I mean do you honestly think that the source material for a CD from the Doors started as digital? no, of course not...it was analog to begin with, then recorded on a digital medium. just to re-iterate what some learned people already know, digital recording is just another way to record, digital records sounds in 1's and 0's, its the way the information is gathered which is different...which is why you can have DAT which is still tape but records the information as 1's and 0's as opposed to magnetic ticks on the tape...same medium, different way of recording the information and that simply is all it is.

Well this topic has been up here for a long while, now. So I think it deserves answering. Digital is the layman term for an electronic or binary operated device; alternately, it defines a counting code which contains ten "digits". Whereas a number represented in binary, which contains two figures in it's frame are called "bits". A bit counts 0,1, and a digit counts 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 as we all know. However, the bit is a way of counting and sending signals of 'on' or 'off' to an electronic device.
An analog device has the same values as a digital device, only a sine wave is produced instead of a square on-off. The analog device has a sliding action along it's Y axis, making the signal softer.
So the age-old argument is the relative difference between signal clarity and signal purity.
The truth is, that a digital device used in the right place is very effective, as with the analog; its just a matter of deciding which type of signal you want to transmit or recieve, and at what stage you want to implement it. fin.