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> CH, It wasn't a scare tactic... It's the truth.. The old burners
> (slower burners) seem to be MUCH more reliable.. Like the 2x and 4x and
> 8x's were great.. I can read almost everything made on those...
> Anything above them, well...
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I have throw away my old 8x a year ago since it only work at 4x lately, lets
see how my one year old 32x work two years later. I bet you just bad luck, I
don't think I will lost any data in three years or even ten. Consider how
many people using CDR today, if it is true I'm sure I will hear this news
everyday.
> Another problem is operating systems. Do you trust M*crosoft to not
> screw you over? They can decide to chuck support for 16 bit apps in
> their OS, and render anything and everything you have obsolete.. (if
> you still have 16bit apps) With new 64bit chips out from AMD and Intel,
> 32bit will become slowly, a thing of the past. 64bit with splits is
> great.. and if and when programs decide to go 64bit, they might not
> support all the older formats, regardless how popular..
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I'm not worry, I will transfer everything to the new system if necessary.
I'm not a M*crosoft fan, but the data in my 1986 720K floppy is still
readable today in my PC (of course I have already transferred the data to my
230MB MO some years ago and now the CD). Honestly say I don't have much old
stuffs I needed.
> jpg2000 is much better technology, but the problem is jpg is so
> proliferative.. and also, what's the use of standards if they keep
> changing? But what's the use of technological of advances if the
> standards don't keep up with it?
I never worry about such change, MS Excel is still supporting 20 years old
dBase II data R/W not to mention the international image file standard like
JPEG and TIFF.
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> Due to manufacturing costs however, if I get a 6x9, I don't think
> digital will catch up... it might not, even in 15 years..
15 years? I worry 10 years later I will not be able to get my slide
processed, here only a few E6 labs left. Even Fuji has moved the E6 process
to China and we need 7 days to get our slides back compared to previous two
days. I can only rely on one or two 2hrs lab but they are located far away
and run only in office hours, so I can only visit them on Saturday. Shooting
film is more difficult today, I can't imagine what happen ten years later.
I changed from 2MP to 6MP in three years, think what will happen in 15
years!
C.H.Ling
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> Albert
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