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I think I probably lose a lot less because of digitalisation due to automatic backups, filing and categorising. We're also living in a world where there is less and less space available per person, so it kind of makes sense. From an environmental viewpoint it also seems like a positive development.
sweek | 08.01.10 - 10:38 a.m. | #
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I'll never give up physical formats. It won't happen in the next 10 years, because there are a lot of people like me and older people who don't/won't ever have the technology requried.
If I can't buy new ones eventually, so what? I've still got the ones I already have. Books and music were better years ago anyway :)
Blue Witch | Homepage | 08.01.10 - 10:41 a.m. | #
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Reading this right in the midst of backing up my family's backup hard drive, so I wouldn't be *quite* so sure about that... ;-)
Dominic Self | Homepage | 08.01.10 - 11:04 a.m. | #
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Analogue can last for thousands of years. I have some cds I burned which were dead within a few months. The best photos I get made up into a photo book which anybody can look at with no batteries, no technology incompatibility, and even if it gets jam and coffee spilt on it, you can still see the pictures.
Debster | Homepage | 08.01.10 - 11:22 a.m. | #
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Oh, and my teenage daughter has just discovered the joys of real records. While she downloads lots of stuff, all the best ones she buys on vinyl.
(Best in her opinion, that is ...)
Debster | Homepage | 08.01.10 - 11:23 a.m. | #
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TV was supposedly the opium of the people...seems like electronic gadgetry has given us all a morphine addiction.
B | 08.01.10 - 11:31 a.m. | #
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With books, films and music I prefer physical copies, although I have copied my 400+ CDs and a small selection of DVDs to the computer for portability. As for photography, digital is fantastic and I can print images as required. I do double backups on portable hard drives and store them separately, so hopefully no data loss for me.
Mark Garth | Homepage | 08.01.10 - 12:17 p.m. | #
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ereaders are the future, but i am waiting to invest in one until the bugs are worked out-hacking, losing bought 'merchandise', servers crashing-no one has come up with how to track or recover what has been 'sold'.
petoskystone | 08.01.10 - 4:03 p.m. | #
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No eReader for me until one that can be safely* used in the bathtub is available.
(* I am talking about _its_ safety, not mine!)
Barbara Jacob | 08.01.10 - 5:24 p.m. | #
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Is there going to be another post at 20:20 tonight, I wonder.
Sarah | Homepage | 08.01.10 - 5:56 p.m. | #
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You're all ahead of me -- I've still got 350 LPs waiting to be digitised. At least I've avoided having to put them onto CDs - I can go straight to MP3 ... or do I wait for MP5?
PeterCS | 08.01.10 - 6:00 p.m. | #
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Well spotted, Sarah. I'll come back in a couple of hours.
Great Aunt Annie | 08.01.10 - 6:32 p.m. | #
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I used to be criticised for throwing away the plastic boxes that CDs come in. I did keep the round shiny thing and the paper.
Now its almost anachronistic.
rashbre | Homepage | 08.01.10 - 7:06 p.m. | #
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This is an area I struggle with from a historians viewpoint! Will my descendants be able to view the videos/DVDs we made of their ancestors, even in as little as 20 years time?
At the same time I have hundreds of CDs we'll probably never listen to again as they've all been stored on the computer. They are needlessly cluttering up the place, but as nowhere will buy them second-hand anymore they are probably destined for the charity shop or landfill now. What a waste.
CornishCockney | 08.01.10 - 7:40 p.m. | #
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bit sad innit.
i don't think e-books will ever be the same as holding a real book..
rowan | 09.01.10 - 5:15 a.m. | #
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Another valid point is sound quality. I feel the sound quality of an iPod isn't as great as that from physical media, such as CDs, cassettes and LPs, due to the compression used in the MP3 files. The same could be said for images. Photographs and paintings saved as JPEG files will not be as good as JPEG throws information away each time it is saved.
It seems like the decades of research we have made into improving the quality of our recorded media could well be partially undone by our desire to carry thousands of songs and photos on long train journeys.
Andrewh | 09.01.10 - 11:16 a.m. | #
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Andrewh: that all depends on the quality you use to encode... go for lossless and there will be no quality difference. Nothing to do with the 'sound quality of the ipod', just the encoding and the headphones you use.
With images, again, it's about the compression you use. do some research and you will be able to get good quality images without any quality loss.
sweek | 09.01.10 - 6:51 p.m. | #
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