----- Original Message ----- From: "Thane Sherrington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Hardware List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [H] One giant blunder for mankind: how NASA lost moon pictures
That's the whole point. It was never backed up to anything and the originals are lost.
I realize you are discussing data most likely saved on analog tape. Until recording started being done digitally from the beginning, the original, it was very important to have the original to make copies from. Copies made from copies had less quality. Once analog material is recorded digitally the loss of quality stops there. Take the films of the assasination of President Kennedy, for example. The loss of quality was frozen in time once those images were digitally recorded. Now copies can be made from copies and if the quality is down to a 3 on a scale of 1 to 10 it will remain at a 3. My point is what value or extra quality can any digital original recording have? Copies do not lose quality. If it looks so good that it rates a 9 on a scale of 1 to 10, it will hold its 9 no matter how many copies are made from copies. True, this is elementary for most of you, but interesting to think about. Does it justify my buying a DVD camcorder when I have a 8 mm tape camcorder? Just a reherotical question. That looks wrong but Spell Check did not correct it.
Chuck
