Saw something neat on TV

[Earlsays]

They where talking about how the library of congress is required to keep a copy of every movie ever made...they where showing reels of film from 1903--still in perfectly preserved condition in their climate controlled environment...they where talking about digital formats becoming obsolete as technology changes, and how, interestingly, the "oudated" older formats where basically superior becuase they will remain usable for most likely hundreds of years while other, newer formats become un-usable for a number of reasons....made me think of things like LP's :banana: I guess old technology really IS better :thmbsp:

[blackwatch26]

There is an LP with greetings from Earth somewhere out beyond Pluto on the Voyager spacecraft. Someday a hundred thousand or a million years from now, it will still be playable.

And they say the Stones have lasted a long time! :scratch2:

Rick

[Rob Babcock]

Sadly, neither film nor tape will last forever. No matter how carefully they're preserved eventually they'll go the way of all flesh.

[NoTransistors]

Tens of thousands of older movies are gone forever. Older film base was flammable, and had a habit of going up in flames all by itself.

Seth
Forever Analog

[Arkay]

Tens of thousands of older movies are gone forever. Older film base was flammable, and had a habit of going up in flames all by itself.

Seth
Forever Analog


Sadly, that is true. The early films were on a celluloid material made from a cellulose base that degenerates over time into something closely akin to cellulose hexanitrate, the first major plastic explosive. Remember seeing those films in grade school that would sometimes melt in front of the projector's light bulbs, creating brief but cool "light shows"? Well, that ain't nothin' to what those really OLD films can do!

[cannext]

Even though celluloid is verry flammable as a storage medium it is better
than tape older video and audio tapes are dying all over .The older masters used for new vinyl tend to be sticky and have to be "baked" to get them to
play .Record companies are trying to save thier archives by transfering them to digital ( sony dsd) .But stuff will be lost .So to those people out there with recondcollections you have history on your shelves ,in more ways than one.

regards F.

[cannext]

btw everything goes the way of the DODO.
F.

[Lefty]

And this will effect me how ? :D

Lefty