Klarinet Archive - Posting 001150.txt from 1999/11

From: charette@-----.org
Subj: Re: [kl] Vinyl to CD?
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 02:28:09 -0500

<As far as bit rot. I think that's an urban legend that was perpetrated by
vinyl record makers. I suspect most CDs will be just as good 200 years from
now as they are today - if you can find something to play them on.

The Library of Congress and the International Librarians Assn. doesn't think so ... The record makers have nothing to do with this; the LofC is worried about general data storage. Lost bits on an audio recording will degrade the playback, but generally it will still be listenable. Not so for data storage (which is what they're primarily interested in) - the degradation they're predicting in less than 50 years would cause even the ECC algorithms to hiccup.

As to Minidisk - only time will tell. My opinion, FWIW, has already been posted.

mark C.

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