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Re: [ARSCLIST] Analog Masters
on 5/7/04 9:59 AM, Watsky, Lance at lwatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> It would seem to me, that the creation of analogue recordings are still, at
> least while we can still obtain blank mag stock, a very safe conservative
> approach in case anything was to happen to the server or the files.
But do analog copies really make sense anymore? It is a dying format, most
tape manufacturers are phasing out their analog tape lines, the same is true
for tape machines. 2 questions come to mind: what guarantee do we have that
present-day tape formulations are robust, and second, what are we to play
these tapes on 40 years hence?
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Konrad Strauss
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