From: "Geo." 

With digital pictures you can give copies out to all family members so
there is a better chance that the photo's won't get lost. When you discover
a copy is degraded, you check with everyone else to see if they have a good
copy, then make yourself a new copy and you are good for years.

Geo.

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:459e7323{at}w3.nls.net...
> The same will bite "regular people" with their digital
photos over time -
> used to be the colors just faded, now you'll either see grampa or you
> won't. Should be interesting...
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
> (I've got, oh, 200+ Gb of pics already...)
>
> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
> news:459e4b2f{at}w3.nls.net...
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Glenn M.
>> "Mike N."  wrote in message
>> news:52hsp21qm0fq4dbjfjttceisiiae2k2a5q{at}4ax.com...
>>> 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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