Subj : "Highly profitable" Bay S
To   : Kaelon
From : Moondog
Date : Sat Jul 16 2022 16:51:00

  Re: "Highly profitable" Bay S
  By: Kaelon to Nightfox on Sat Jul 16 2022 09:21 am

 >   Re: "Highly profitable" Bay Street Video store n Toronto thrives
 >   By: Nightfox to Kaelon on Tue Jul 12 2022 09:09 am
 > 
 >  > I'm not sure I'd call optical formats unnecessary..  You can't always rel
 >  > on your internet always working 100%, and same for a streaming service.
 >  > Streaming services randomly pull content from their services too, so you
 >  > can't even rely on something always being available to watch there.  Thos
 >  > are a few of the reasons I still like to buy movies on physical formats.
 > 
 > I don't disagree.  But do we need to preserve optical formats with their lim
 > s so that I don't have to insert discs anymore, and I just stream it on my o
 > _____
 > -=: Kaelon :=-
 > 

Digital backups need to be maintained / replaced and hardware requires
upgrades as capacities increase and older firmware no longer
supports newer drive media and speeds.  If kept stored properly, the optical
media (factory manufactured) should stay intact.  No need to change codecs or
storage formats as time goes by.

At one site I worked at, a sales guy pulled out some old CD's he burned in
the early 2000's and wanted files moved over to the network.  the laptops we
issue no longer had CD or DVD drives.  Anyways, the files he wanted were
scanned in a proprietary format the scanner software he used in the late
1990's.  We got lucky and found in our software repository a program that
would read the format, but it had to be run on a virtual machine.  By the
time we recovered the document andpreserved it to a pdf file, he could've
original documents pulled from the long term storage site.

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