Posted on 03/24/2010 5:20:49 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Blu-Ray hasn't been mentioned...
But only goes for 200 years...
10 BD-R discs in an archival ten pack spindle $249.99
I want to be a flashdrive for each of my grand kids....ROFL!
Neptune is very busy out here.
I’ve got the Beatles White Album on vinyl, 8-track, cassette, CD and mp3. Dear Prudence, indeed.
To me the CD sound was never as good as a cassette tape. Too compressed and not as warm.
Accelerated stability testing?
Those are already available. Not cheap, but available.
Kids can borrow CDs from the library and rip them to their hard drives. As soon as one copy exists on a hard drive, it can be copied to friends hard drives easily. They don't need file-sharing hosts any more (with their vulnerability to RIAA subpoenas) if they and their friends can merge music collections completely under the radar.
Oh, gosh, you pointed out several no no ‘s that I’m doing. Cheap cds, regular markers. I guess I need to look around for a bulk supplier of high quality cd’s. We go through a bunch. Probably 400 a year?
******************************************
PDF]
|
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
simulation of the production process using empirically ...... for the implementation of accelerated test plans, predictive ...... (Statistical Engineering Division, NIST); S. Doty, B. Belzer, ...... longevity of nano-multilayer magnetic media.” ..... National Institute of Standards and Technology. Director ... www.nist.gov/msel/metallurgy/upload/AnnualReport2003.pdf |
|
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
Using NIST's crystallographic databases it is possible to resolve a ...... At the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) the ... directional test facility (a current highbay lab at NIST in building 226). ...... have created a microfluidic device to perform the Eberwine process using a column of 6 µm ... www.surf.nist.gov/pdf/promo2008.pdf |
|
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
Laboratory (ITL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ..... Under the Bayesian paradigm, such a test can be performed using so-called ...... Students are invited to bring sample data sets on a floppy drive or CD-R. ...... Workshop "Longevity, Aging and Degradation Models in Reliability, ... www.itl.nist.gov/div898/pubs/ar/SED2004.pdf |
See link at #100.
I doubt they will ever be cheap because they will never reach an economy of scale.
Not many people will really want to convert vinyl to digital.
Most recordings that most people would want are already available digitally and at a much better quality than could be achieved by converting a vinyl record to digital.
Pretty much a special use item for museums and professional archivist.
Looked thru some of those links,...lots of stuff...but never found was I asked Google for....sorry.
700 MB isn’t much storage for images anymore. Most new digicams are set to astronomical dimensions for greatest pixel clarity, but the sizes are well over what most normal folks’ desktop resolutions can handle. As a result, some digital images can breach the 5 MB mark. Isn’t it amazing how far we’ve come?
I was marveling today at how people talk about 500 GB or 620 GB or 750 GB like it’s nothing; it’s so new. I have 2 160 GB SATA disks in a RAID10 in my desktop mobo from 2005, and I’ve made that stretch. Disk storage is obscenely cheap nowadays with 1 TB disks become commonplace; and with 3 Gbps from SATA and 5 Gbps coming up with SATA2, disk access/write speeds are no longer an issue. And finally, jump drives, thumb drives, call them what you want, the offerings in portable USB and firewire hard drives are plentiful.
Most photogs I know use solid-state stuff like thumbdrives and portable disks, esp. with newer OSes (esp. Leopard) coming with backup-to-disk options nowadays.
RIP CD. This must’ve been how it felt for my old man to say goodbye to the record or even the 8-track.
I download stuff off iTunes then rip it to CD’s to play in the car. I do not like the gizmo you plug into the cigarette lighter, that plays your iPod on an unused radio station, because I always get static. I like the CD’s because they play better, at least in my area.
Oh, I didn’t think of that. What a silly bunt. ;’)
That's true. For folks with large collections of LPs though, they could be a lifesaver. I can easily understand hard-core vynal owners shelling out bucks for something that won't wear the record when it is played (as even the best needles do). With modern DSP equipment to remove the inevitable pop and click, it might extend the live of LPs for quite a while.
My wife's uncle Bob had (conservatively) 10K albums when he died. He'd started converting a bunch of them to CDs in his later years before he passed, but didn't really make a dent in his collection. Someone really got quite a haul of big-band, blues, and old country stuff when his estate went up for sale. Unfortunately, family issues kept us from actively trying to preserve it.
The last few years we would take a paper bag full of CDs from him, take them home and rip them, and hand him his disks back and a couple of DVDs to load on his computer. He thought it was better than sliced bread because he had so much stuff available right at his fingertips. Of course we kept copies so I have some really interesting stuff in my collection. I have a copy of "Rising Son Blues" recorded in the late 30's to early 40s. It's the oldest version I've ever heard of what became a big hit with the Animals as "The House of the Rising Sun".
I am buying up used VHS tapes of favorite movies. The ones I couldn’t afford to buy before.
Call me cheap. Me, I’m frugal.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.