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Originally posted by 928ram
Still in question is the true archival abilities of digital images, by true I mean other than what those selling the eqip. are saying. It's been sayed that an entire generation will lose it's memories witht he rise of digital into the marketplace.
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This won't be a problem if you practice good data management techniques. CD-Rs, DVD-Rs, and hard-drives all have a shelf life, but the deterioration period for quality media in the CD-R range (which appears to have the shortest life-span, although DVD-R has not been out a long time) is about 10 years. With the amount of photos you'd really need to store (think about how many 640x480 jpgs you could store on ONE DVD-R), it's not that big of a deal to either replicate your media after a couple years or transfer it to the next emerging technology.
We have to think a lot about these issues, since most of the music information we use is stored digitally these days.
JCM