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Remember these recent consumer film/video/data recording/playback formats?
In no particular order:
Cave drawings
16mm film
8mm film
Super 8mm
3/4 Videotape
1/2" BetaMax
1/2" VHS
1/8" cassette tape
1/4" recording tape (1.5, 3.5, 7, 15 ips)
2" recording tape
Hi speed video (Betacam)
LaserDisc
8" floppy disc
3.5" floppy disc (120Kb, 320Kb, 1.2Mb)
Digital tape
Optical drives
8" Bernoulli disc
5 1/4" Syquest disc (5Mb, 10Mb, 20Mb)
Hard drives (5 Mb, 10Mb, 20Mb, 100Mb, 5Gb, 10Gb, 60Gb, 80Gb, 700Gb, 1Tb, etc.
CD (read only, R/W)
35mm film
Polaroid film
2.25" film
4x5 film
8x10 film
IMAX film
DVD
... now HD DVD
Blu-Ray
Next....?
I'm sure I missed some.
It's either progress and/or designed obsolescence.
Sherwood
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