On 2017-04-13, g...@btinternet.com wrote:
My question is whether it is worth digitising these recordings for posterity?
It always is. I'm one of the folks who are willing to bear part of the brunt.
But only part of it. Full audio/video takes a lot of room, unlike my beloved textual Motherlode. I'd think we'd have to establish a shared, distributed backup for this sort of thingy. Beyond what I or anybody else can singly put out, or retain.
Anybody game? Even if I'm rather poor right now, I can put down something like 2-4TB of cold storage right now. Mirrored. In pure audio, it goes a mile, I think. In video not so much. Still, anybody else, game?
I have memories that this system utilised phase-encoded elements so would the cassette tape's performance have degraded any surround info?
They do. So, the brunt of it would be on the people having the original material. Those who'd have to arrive at an arrangement which ensures that the originals truly are digitized in the best manner possible; without losing quality. Also, you can't lose the original even after it has been digitized, but you have to preserve it as well; to perchance have it re-digitized at a later date...
I'm reluctant to throw away rare examples of our past technologies :-)
Indeed. That'd be pretty much an example of secular sin. Please let us do better than that, as a crowd. 8)
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