Hi Troy, Yes, the digital data will never be lost - or will it? See the first posts of this thread and you'll understand that 1) the media will deteriorate, 2)players for the media will not be around, 3)computers that understand how to talk to old drives will not be around, and 4) operating systems for the machines to read it will not exist. How long before DVD completely takes over the CD? Will DVD be a "standard" or will something else come along? Compatability cannot be maintained forever. Migrating data to new formats has historically not worked. No one takes the time to do it. Have you migrated all of your data from 5-1/4 inch floppies to CDR, or even all of your 3-1/2 inch floppies? Even if a CDR lasts 50 -200 years (they don't) a good quality black and white print will outlast it. Brent --- Chris Russell <chris@therussells.net> wrote:
I've been reading this thread on the "archiveability" of digital prints and no one has brought up this point on digital photos: Although the prints expire, the digital data does not. As long as you reburn your CDR's every 5 to 10 years and keep more than one copy, your image will never fade, will never lose it's origional quality, and you can always print new prints (with probably even better printer quality with every print). CDR's should last 50 to 100 years, so this is a very conservative approach.
That sounds better than any photo print archive method or scheme I've ever heard of and it certainly beats the life expectancy of normal color photos.
On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 23:43:23 -0700 Troy Adair <troyadair@utah-inter.net> wrote:
No Brent,
I "heard" that laser prints last a very long time, but didn't come across any solid data on them being tested for how long they lasted. We did try to find some data on color xerox copies, which I think would be similar to color laser prints since both use toner, but we couldn't find any data on how long they last.
Troy
At 07:59 AM 2/5/2002 -0800, you wrote:
Troy,
Great information. Did you run across any information on laser printers, both color and black and white?
Brent
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