I found this on the BBC website, apologies if it has already been posted.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ne/8711747.stm
I found this on the BBC website, apologies if it has already been posted.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ne/8711747.stm
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Well i don't believe in crap media anyway.The bare minimum i use is TDK. For me Taiyo Yuden..I don't worry.You use cheap crap no way on earth is it gonna be reliable anyway like with anything else.
All the more reason to go down the streaming route.
I have ten plus year old CDR's and they're fine...
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I have had a concern for a number of years about the safety of out future archives.
We have books, manuscripts and written documents centuries old. Will electronic data be readable as long?
Just think what could be lost to future historians.
Brian
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Retrieving your old Shakin' Stevens MP3s will be the least of your worries when your fighting for water in a post apocalyptic wasteland
Rich
According to some studies, up to 98% of all the material ever published is currently out of print. The only way we, as a community, are slowly chipping away at fixing this is by digitizing the out-of-print material. Community based web sites, such as archive.org and wikipedia.org are some of the prime examples that the power of technology gives us.
Electronic storage is dirt cheap now, only to get even cheaper with the passage of time. There are already so many redundant copies of the redundant copies of the desirable content, I wouldn't worry too much about its longevity. The important thing is to hurry and digitize all of our cultural heritage, before all these rotting out-of-print books, magazines, newspaper, LPs, tapes, VHS etc. disintegrate.
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Alex.
I have one TDK Gold CDR that I recorded on a Marantz CDR1 (think that's the model number) £4500 and the disc was £20 (CD-W12)trade. You also had to fill in a form as to what you wanted to use the blank disc for. This was back in 1993.
The disc is still fine and still plays A okay
As to cheap discs well I have never used them and always use TDK or similar but I do have a few bought pre-recorded CDs that have rotted.
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