Re: [ARSCLIST] electronic reading of physical media, was: Preservation policy question

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lou:

http://www.aes.org/sections/pnw/pnwrecaps/2005/russell/

James Russell was thinking along the same lines when he invented what became
the CD and DVD. The Pacific Northwest section of the AES was kind enough to
publicly post the audio of his January 2005 presentation. Fascinating
history here.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lou Judson" <inaudio@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 2:06 PM
Subject: [ARSCLIST] electronic reading of physical media, was: Preservation
policy question


This is great food for future-thinking - does anyone think it will
eventually become possible to make an image scan of a disc and have the
computer read it, in the way a scanner and OCR can turn documents into
type or ASCII code? And eventually magnetic tape might be read, the way
we used to use chemicals to make magnetic patterns visible? I would
think it was easily possible given advanced anough computers and
software...

After all, I invented (in my imagination only!) memory chip delivery of
music when I was 14 in the 60s... now look at us... if only I'd had the
skills to manifest it then!

Fantasy becomes reality someday...

<L>

Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689

On Dec 9, 2005, at 8:59 AM, Karl Miller wrote:

> To which I would add...while we believe we can get the best from any
> original, I always keep originals simply because I believe there is
> always
> the possibility that technology will give us better capture in the
> future.
> I would hate to think of some lacquer discs being tossed after transfer
> considering some of the possible use of the imaging technology for
> capture
> becoming economically viable in the not too distant future. Perhaps we
> could have, or perhaps there is, some technology to capture, without
> direct
> contact to a playback head, audio from magnetic tape.
>
> As for what you keep, versus your available space...that is a rough
> question at any time...
>
> Karl