From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

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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