Re: Are old LPs worth anything?
From:
Tony B <[email protected]>
Date:
Sat, 9 May 2009 21:07:46 -0400
Don't waste a lot of time, as most of these have probably been
released digitally years ago. I especially can't imagine why you'd
bother with tape, but even CD has been superceded by DVD, and now you
_should_ be considering blu-ray.
DVDs are for archiving music, not for playing unless your DVD player
also plays AIFF/WAV/MP3, etc. It makes sense to archive on DVD, and to
make CDs for playing, and also MP3s for iPods and other digital music
players, but not on Blu-ray. Most important is that you digitize the
music at the best quality you can.
Blu-ray is Sony. Sony is notoriously fickle about its products and
spends more on marketing than quality control. Blu-ray hasn't been
widely adopted and is still very expensive. I'd wait before archiving
music or data on a medium that might be gone in a couple of years.
Remember Sony Betamax? Mini-Disks? M-O disks? Bernoulli drives?
Zip/Jazz? Floppy disks? Flash memory may soon be obsolete, too.
Instead of recommending Blu-ray, we need to consider how to avoid
retro-storage disasters with our music treasures, without breaking the bank.
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