[rollei_list] Re: Large Format film availability

Magnetic media has a specified archival life of about 15 years, but in
practice it is typically longer. I routinely pull good audio off
cassettes from the 70s and open reel tapes from the 60s and 50s.

Burned CD/DVDs have a stated archival life of about 3 years, but in
practice it can be much shorter and occationally somewhat longer. I've
seen burned media fail in weeks, days, sometimes hours...

Most average people simply to not care for or archive their media at
all, and I would be stunned if more than 1 or 2 out of a hundred of
those kids still had the recording your daughter gave them when they
are grown up. If she gave them a cassette, the vast majority would be
ok and if it were a vinyl record, it would probably be almost everyone
except those with butter-fingers...


Eric Goldstein

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On 4/30/08, Jim Brick <jim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Eric,
>
>  She, of course, cannot remove all of the background stuff but she can (and
> does) remove a certain amount of it which makes the playback sound a lot
> better than the original playback.
>
>  And she is well aware of the finite life of computer recorded CD's and
> DVD's. She tells the parents that if they want to keep the recording
> forever, they will need to back it up and then every so often, migrate it to
> new media.
>
>  I have a lot of 1/2" computer tapes, reel-to-reel music tapes, cassettes,
> 8", 5-1/4", & 3-1/2" floppies, and, CD's that I created a few years ago,
> that have gone south. Magnetics (tapes & floppies) and chemical reactions
> (CD's & DVD's) simply do not last. It is a fact.
>
>  On the other hand, I have family negatives and prints from the late 1800's
> that are still in 'really' good condition. And they were never stored in
> ideal conditions. I truly believe that the current generation of non film
> family photographs are going to leave future generations with a HUGE hole
> when they want to go back and look at family history. When, on the news, you
> see people having to flee their homes due to wild fires (or some other
> disaster), when interviewed, what do they grab when they run out... their
> PICTURES! I guess future generations can grab their hard disks & DVD's. But
> good luck!
>
>  IMHO,
>
>  :-)
>
>  Jim
>
>
>  On Apr 30, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Eric Goldstein wrote:
>
>
> > Hi Jim -
> >
> > Thanks for the info and the memories.
> >
> > I don't think your daughter can edit out background noise, but feel
> > free to fill me in.
> >
> > I'd also mention that while you can still play and enjoy your
> > recording from when you were a kid, there is no chance that the CD
> > your daughter's students receive from her will survive more than a few
> > years, if they are lucky...
> >
> > Eric Goldstein
> >
> > --
> >
> > On 4/30/08, Jim Brick <jim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Sure. I remember them well. When I took piano lessons (40's and early
> 50's),
> > > my teacher had a 'record' recorder. Quite expensive. We (his pupils)
> each
> > > got a record of our performance during recitals. I still have mine.
> > >
> > > My daughter teaches piano, she records the entire recital in stereo,
> > > digitally, loads the whole recital into her MAC, edits out the
> background
> > > noise and other extraneous stuff, then gives each pupil a CD of the
> entire
> > > recital, labeled with a really cool label.
> > >
> > > http://tinyurl.com/4rsxqr
> > >
> > >
> http://global.dymo.com/enUS/ProductAccessories/DiscPainter.html
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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