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Posted by Martin Heffels on 04/22/06 13:11
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:49:24 GMT, "David McCall" <david.mccall@comcast.net>
wrote:
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>"TheFug." <nospam@plea.se> wrote in message
>news:khqc429f6290iv7329jstmj791gjb6rjmg@4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:39:02 GMT, szekeres@pitt.edu (GregS) wrote:
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>> You also have to decode digital formats.... when the're out of
>> fashion, you can't decode...
>> -- The Fug
>>
>Good point. I thought about that right after made the post.
>The 1s and 0s may be fine, but if you don't have the right
>codec, then you would be screwed. An example of that is
>the proprietary MJPEG files that my Matrox Digisuite creates.
>If you try to open them on a computer that doesn't have
>their codec, they are not readable.
You picked a bad sample, as Matrox has a software version of all their
codecs, which doesn't require the specific Matrox-hardware.
Software codecs will be around for much longer, as long as somebody ports
them to a newer version of the operating system. With very proprietary
software, this can be a problem of course, but there are plenty of people
skilled in reverse-engineering software.
>Analog, on the other hand, only represents a varying voltage
>run it at the right speed and your audio or video should work.
>It might look or sound like shit, but you should be able to
>extract some of the information.
So, instead of printing all the 1's and 0's to paper, it's better to
archive on film.
cheers
-martin-
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