[geeks] I haven't gotten into this yet but I need some advice

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Fri Apr 12 15:13:39 CDT 2002


On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 09:07:46PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:

>Yes, we have kinda veered off the topic :-)  Having said that, if she wants
>her great-grand-children to be able to laugh at the video of their grandfather
>at their age (ooh look at those quaint clothes! and what's that metal thing?
>a car? why doesn't it fly? bored now, want to go play with my jet boots) then
>she could well want to archive for half a century or more.

>>                                                      Paper would be the most
>>convienient, but care needs to be taken to use right materials.  Archiving
>>video to paper is easy enough, although you will loose a lot of dynamic range
> 
> Errm, paper has more dynamic range than most video.  Especially if you're
> talking monochrome.

I think I was thinking of film when I wrote that.
 
-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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