From: "Glenn Meadows" 

The unique thing, is that the old analog formats, while troublesome with
some generations of tape (gooey tape shed syndrome, which is another
discussion totally), can be played, and the material recovered for
re-issue. The Digital formats though, if the deterioration of the media is
so great, that the error correction won't handle the scope of the errors,
the audio mutes, and you have NADA.  So, in the digital world, it's an all
or nothing deal.

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Glenn M.
"Mike N."  wrote in message
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> On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 20:43:30 -0600, "Glenn Meadows"

> wrote:
>
>>The original source masters though, are a whole different ball game.  The
>>formats are all over the place
>
>  Thanks, that was interesting to hear about all those different formats.
> Not totally unlike keeping all the different file formats - I try to
> migrate all old backup tapes to a new format as soon as I upgrade.

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