RE: [dvd-discuss] Eldred Amicus

[microlenz(at)earthlink.net]

GOod points and they may have realized that while the VHS tape beats 16mm 
prints for convenience and size, even the ULTRA-Extreme-Super DVD can only put 
MORE movies into a smaller space because the improvement in resolution, 
fidelity has approached and now exceeded the human senses.e.g. 24 bit 96ksps 
Audio DVD - give me a break. THe dynamic range of Human hearing is 24 bits  and 
requires only slightly more than 44ksps and my speakers and my ears don't do 
either anylonger! The model of new and improved media isn't working any more 
because improvements in the media have reached the diminishing returns stage.

On 31 May 2002 at 21:21, D. C. Sessions wrote:

Subject:        	RE: [dvd-discuss] Eldred Amicus
From:           	"D. C. Sessions" <dcs@lumbercartel.com>
To:             	DVD-Discuss <dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu>
Date sent:      	31 May 2002 21:21:15 -0700
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> On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 05:58, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote:
> > At 7:50 PM -0700 5/30/02, microlenz@earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> > >The problem is bit rot.  Planned obsolescence of media.
> > >By the time the original Star Wars enters the public
> > >domain (even if we turn the clock back to 50 years)
> > >there won't be any surviving videotapes of the original,
> > >there won't be any surviving players for them, and there
> > >won't be any TV sets capable of displaying NTSC format.
> > >
> > >All of the new copies will of course have additions and
> > >new copyright dates.
> > 
> > That's what the studios hope, of course, but it's no so clear it will 
> > happen. Disk capacity is exploding faster than Moore's law.  See 
> > http://www.sigmaxi.org/amsci/Issues/Comsci02/Compsci2002-05.html
> >   for an interesting discussion. Terabyte PC's for the home are coming 
> > soon. Petabytes are down the road. DVD-R is here now.  Copying from 
> > disk to disk as you upgrade defeats bit rot.
> 
> Only if it's actually possible to copy the material.
> This ties into why the studios are so desperate to
> media-lock the content.
> 
> They're not half so worried about piracy as they are
> about backups.
> 
> 
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