Preserving Old Audio & Video Formats

Our fond memories will disappear. Aging formats plague the ways to archive footage we take with our video cameras and other recordings. VHS is a dying medium, and now DVD is old school. Spinning hard drives are slowly being replaced by solid state flash drives. How does one keep up to save our memories? Check out this great video on the subject... while it lasts. Credit: CBS Sunday Morning & David Pogue

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• migration
• data rot
• technology
• dvd
• videotape
• old format
• film
• movie
• defunct
• aging
• obsolete
• computer museum
• computer history museum
• david pogue
• ipod
• hard drive
• flash drive
• library of congress

[BLUamnEsiac]

This video reminded me that I need to migrate/copy my massive data collections soon. Some of my CD-Rs are already hitting the 10 year mark and DVD+/-Rs are about 6. I've dated each and every one of them to evaluate optical disc data rot for myself. Even if ideally stored, they probably won't last anywhere near the possible 50 year lifespan.

[raymondleeleggs]

Stereo equipment is never obsolete Give that reel to reel and cassette deck to me!

[DelilahThePig]

Scotch brand tape from '96 falls apart?

[Brianexe43]

lol what a fail, ipod hard drives arent that small lol

[thereaperorsutch]

@thereaperorsutch of course,still standing!!!

[thereaperorsutch]

in croatia, there are houses older than 200years!