Dunno if this will get to the list, but.....

7 years ago, I burned all our family home movies to DVD. Today, most are
scratched, unrreadable, and in quite pathetic shape; I've managed to
recapture have to MPG files; for the rest, we are back to the bank vault to
get the original tapes and will re-encode them

My thinking is I want to find some type of archival light loop that will
keep them safe for a long time.....

jc


On 7/12/07, Brad Jensen <brad@...> wrote:
>
> I understand archivists have been burned by the many formats and
> generations of magnetic tape, but CDs have now been available for
> 25 years, and current drives can read the earliest CDs. I expect
> that 25 years from now, you will still be able to read a CD in an
> easily-available drive. Wikipedia says 30 billion CDs of various
> formats were sold in 2004.
>
> The CD and DVD offer a standardized, random access format for
> digital content, and hundreds of millions of people own the
> devices to record in these formats. It makes sense to come up
> with media for long-term storage and archiving of these formats.
>
> We are past the 'Wild West' days of early computing. It really
> makes sense to create more permanent media for these ubiquitous
> drives. When I look at a faded photograph of Lincoln, I think
> that if the recording medium had been digital, the photograph
> would not have faded.
>
> Brad Jensen
> www.laservault.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff Rothenberg [mailto:jeff@...]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 1:57 PM
> > To: Brad Jensen
> > Cc: archivists@yahoogroups.com; jeff@...
> > Subject: Re: [archivists] Archival wuality dvd-R
> >
> >
> > I have often argued that producing longer-lived storage media
> > would not be cost-effective, since they will become obsolete
> > before they wear out. It makes little sense to produce a
> > gold or platinum CD if the format itself becomes obsolete in
> > 5-10 years, as it is likely to. The things that make media
> > obsolete are not their short physical lifetimes but rather
> > the fact that newer media offer higher density, more
> > convenient packaging, and other advantages.
>
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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