On Thursday, July 27, 2017 at 12:01:00 AM UTC-4, Bob F wrote:
On 7/26/2017 7:14 PM, trader_4 wrote:
On Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 3:23:06 PM UTC-4, Bob F wrote:
On 7/24/2017 5:18 AM, Frank wrote:


I'm considering one of those one box deals where you fill it with old
films, media and tapes etc and for a couple of hundred bucks get all
copied to modern media.

Which unfortunately dies of age 5-10 years down the line, or there is no
longer a device to read it available.

Once it's converted to digital you can easily move it to future digital media every 10 years, or as needed, with no loss in quality. If it's important, then it should be duplicated on different types of storage, cloud, etc. It's orders of magnitude better than old pictures that are subject to deterioration.

I've got 100 year old pictures. And I can see what they are immediately.


Assuming they aren't eaten by silverfish or otherwise deteriorated from less than ideal storage. And you can't copy them, make new ones, without loss in quality. With digital, the original accuracy is maintained 100%.


An old, even "archival" CD. What are you going to look at it on? If you
even bother.


I guess you missed the part where I said that you can easily move digital to newer media, storage, every 10 years or whenever required. You can play playback records today, movies from 100 years ago. With all the dvds in use today I see no reason to think that if you came across a DVD 100 years from now that there would be no way to get what's there off. In my book, digital is far superior, but you can rely on paper, your choice.


I suspect most of such things will disappear.

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