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glatt · 12-03-2009, 08:00 AM

If you digitize it all, then it's easy to convert it in the future to whatever the next storage medium is.

20 years ago I was bored and had some free time. I was at home after college, and I pulled out the family's old super 8 movies, and set up the VHS camcorder and videoed all of our home movies onto VHS. About 5 years ago, my brother took those old VHS tapes and converted them to DVD. A couple years ago, he put them on youtube to share with all the relatives. I don't watch them that often, but it's nice to be able to when I want to.

My parents have a bunch of old pictures from my childhood, and some of them have been scanned, but not all. I really would like to have copies of all of them.

The pictures I've taken are harder. we have maybe 20 albums of photos from when the kids were younger and we had film cameras. Now that everything is digital, we don't bother printing them out any more. There are too many. But they are backed up out the wazoo.

I don't have a good answer. I think the media should be easily accessible, but it shouldn't and can't be all out on display. There's too much. I have 41,000 family pictures from the last decade. Probably 40,000 of them are mediocre crap.

12-03-2009, 08:00 AM	#4
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	If you digitize it all, then it's easy to convert it in the future to whatever the next storage medium is. 20 years ago I was bored and had some free time. I was at home after college, and I pulled out the family's old super 8 movies, and set up the VHS camcorder and videoed all of our home movies onto VHS. About 5 years ago, my brother took those old VHS tapes and converted them to DVD. A couple years ago, he put them on youtube to share with all the relatives. I don't watch them that often, but it's nice to be able to when I want to. My parents have a bunch of old pictures from my childhood, and some of them have been scanned, but not all. I really would like to have copies of all of them. The pictures I've taken are harder. we have maybe 20 albums of photos from when the kids were younger and we had film cameras. Now that everything is digital, we don't bother printing them out any more. There are too many. But they are backed up out the wazoo. I don't have a good answer. I think the media should be easily accessible, but it shouldn't and can't be all out on display. There's too much. I have 41,000 family pictures from the last decade. Probably 40,000 of them are mediocre crap.