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To: dhs12345

You think you have storage problems, the Library of Congress tries to maintain original playback devices. So many file formats. So many codecs.


41 posted on 12/07/2013 10:14:51 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: a fool in paradise
Exactly. The oldest recordable media to the most modern.

But many many thanks to them and for what they do.

In the end, in a couple hundred years, all of it may be lost. Even photographs won't last forever.

Will probably involve some form of re-recording and conversion in order to preserve it well after the originals are lost.

Even printing out a digital picture will not last as long as a photo. The dies in your ink jet printer have a shelf life.

44 posted on 12/07/2013 10:24:06 AM PST by dhs12345
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