Subj : Re: Vinyl vs CD
To   : Ogg
From : Greenlfc
Date : Thu Feb 17 2022 06:31:45

On 13 Feb 2022, Ogg said the following...
 
 Og> But.. will the rubberbands for the turntables and will the  
 Og> cartridges/needles still be around after so many years?  :/

Well, new belts are still manufactured, and direct drive turntables exist.  While styluses wear over time, there's still a good stock and new production in 2022.

At the end of the day, though, I'd see recreating the early 1900s technology of turntables to be somewhat easier than recreating something that can play MP3s.  I've lost enough data over time that I'm paranoid of anything digital just *poof* disappearing (and I'm in IT, not just a user).  Heck, when I was a kid, I played a record by gluing a pushpin onto the end of a cone made of a rolled up manila folder and spinning the turntable by hand.

Even if a record is *broken*, you could still stand a chance of recovering the data from it, albeit difficultly.

Permanence in an age of digital ephemera is an invaluable attribute.

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