> > From: Leon Altoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/04/27 Thu PM 12:59:58 GMT > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Subject: Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity? > > Storage is not just for computers any more. > > When CD's came out the vinyl record disappeared, you can still get > record players. > > Computers have become so tied up with the whole multi-media thing that > they NEED to maintain compatibility with people's CD and DVD > collections. My DVD collection is only about 100 or so, but I know > people with over 500 DVD's and countless CDs. The cost of conversion is > prohibitive and unless compatibility is maintained then take up of any > new technology will be slow. Manufacturers don't want this so for a > minor increase in cost they will build in the compatibility - until the > content suppliers come up with a new way of licensing the content (and > that is happening as we speak too).
That's not necessarily true. Collectors are a minority - most people treated records as a disposable artefact. The way similar people treat CDs and DVDs _because they can_ makes me cringe. They are a manufacturer's joy because they will buy new media (often with the same entertainment as the previous media) and the methodology of utilising it without a second's thought. I have a friend who is a "refuse disposal operative". Until company regulations forbade it, he "collected" his household appliances from work. His music system and other AV was _way_ better than I could afford. People had thrown it out because they didn't like the colour. With that kind of market, there is little incentive for manufacturers to implement compatibility - as we have discovered here. > > For the record I back up to CD, DVD and keep a hard drive copy. Every > 12 months or so I go back and randomly check the CD's and DVD's to make > sure that they are still readable. My early digital stuff is on 2 CD's > rather than a CD and DVD, but it is on one gold CD and one silver CD, > because no one could tell me what the difference between them was. > > Leon > > http://www.bluering.org.au > http://www.bluering.org.au/leon > > > Jostein wrote: > > Very interesting indeed. Long-life media is a good start. > > > > If even the minimum estimate of 80 years holds, media lifetime will not be > > the > > limiting factor. > > > > Second question: Will there be any CD-R readers to go round in 80 years from > > now? > > Personal computers have been with us for 25 years, and we've already passed > > through several generations of storage media that can no longer be read by > > mainstream computers. > > > > Jostein > > > > > > Quoting Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> This looks interesting: > >> http://www.imaginginfo.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=3&id=1641 > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
