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Vicboduk · 12th Jul 2021, 1:12 pm

" I can open a 200 year old book as easily as one published last week, which is of course not the case with digital files."

For me this is the main issue, as the recording medium gets more complicated so does the player technology. Once all the lasers in our CD, DVD & Blu-ray devices fail, how do we recover the data?

However, I’m sure I could cobble up a turntable and stylus maybe even a rudimentary head for magnetic tape but I know the optical system for CD’s,DVD’s & Blu-ray would be beyond me.

Vic

12th Jul 2021, 1:12 pm	#48
Vicboduk Hexode Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: S.W. London, UK. Posts: 416	Re: The end of physical media. " I can open a 200 year old book as easily as one published last week, which is of course not the case with digital files." For me this is the main issue, as the recording medium gets more complicated so does the player technology. Once all the lasers in our CD, DVD & Blu-ray devices fail, how do we recover the data? However, I’m sure I could cobble up a turntable and stylus maybe even a rudimentary head for magnetic tape but I know the optical system for CD’s,DVD’s & Blu-ray would be beyond me. Vic