PM>Roy J. Tellason wrote in a message to Peter May:

PM> RJT> Peter May wrote in a message to Jasen Betts:

PM> RJT> 

PM> JB> early CD have already begun to fail, later ones are reportedly
PM> JB> better quality.

PM> PM> Like my "spare copy" of Windows 98...no scratches
but cant be read
PM> PM> properly by some drives.

PM> RJT> That a factory-made copy?

PM>Yes, Windows 98 Plus. The Micro$oft product refuses to function anymore, the
PM>pirate copy on a Kodak disk is still OK. The pirate copy was found in a CD-ROM
PM>drive of a "junked" PC at a nearby recycling yard.

PM>Remember when CDs first came out, they said you can scratch them and put
PM>fingerprints on them and they will still play OK. Well it's not true!

I think it is basically true. I have numerous CDs with
scratches and smudges on the data side and they read from
multiple drives just fine. You just canNOT scratch the
the other side at all. Even the slightest pinhole can/will
render the CD unreadable.

Jay

Jay

PM> RJT> 

PM> PM> I have two Edison cyinders but no way to play them back. I've seen
PM> PM> people with various rig-ups for playback, problem is with hill and
PM> PM> dale recording, later stylii/cartridges are designed for lateral
PM> PM> recordings.

PM> RJT> I've seen players,  at an antique place.  Never particularly
PM> RJT> wanted one of those,  though.

PM> RJT> 

PM> PM> My sister recently asked if I could convert the 8mm to video, but
PM> PM> thats almost eclipsed by DVD already. You start looking at layers
PM> PM> of degradation as well, each time the media crosses formats.

PM> RJT> Not once you've gone to a digital format,  you don't.

PM> PM> What if the stupid VCR chews the tape?

PM> RJT> Make more than one copy?

PM> RJT> 

PM> PM> These videos are so precious and so difficult to preserve. Maybe 
PM> PM> they should be digitised uploaded to a dozen mirror sites on the
PM> PM> internet, I dont know the answer, I'm faced with the same problem.

PM> RJT> Which echos what I was saying in an earlier post,  the more people
PM> RJT> who consider some information to be worth preserving,  the more
PM> RJT> copies are going to exist here and there,  and the less likely it
PM> RJT> is that some total disaster is going to do away with it
PM> RJT> altogether.  Combine that with a higher probability of that
PM> RJT> information propagating into newer storage media,  and it'll stick
PM> RJT> around if enough people consider it worthwhile.

PM>I see what you mean.....like Betacord, DAT, Super VHS-C etc...

PM> PM> All my wedding photos went pink, the photographer with the 
PM> PM> negatives is long gone. Maybe I could scan the photos and colorize
PM> PM> them. Any ideas?

PM> RJT> There's lots of image processing software out there for all sorts
PM> RJT> of different platforms,  I'd be surprised if there weren't some
PM> RJT> way to deal with that.  Particularly if you can get very specific
PM> RJT> about what way the original image changed to what it is now,  that
PM> RJT> should be reversible in the digital domain.  In any case,  if you
PM> RJT> happen on some way of dealing with it I'd sure like to hear about
PM> RJT> it.

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PM>Regards,
PM>Peter 
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