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WebGuy


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Hopefully you have all those family photos backed up off your hard drive. Just a warning if you have all your family photo's stored on CD-R.

It seems that the longevity of CD-R's might only be two years. Especially when dealing with something as important as you family history in photo and video, it might be a good idea to re-burn them once in a while.

It looks like due to the way they work, CD-RW might be the better choice but here is the full article I got this from so you can read for yourself.






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Thanks for sharing! Always a scam to keep us always having to upgrade.

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Dylan


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Thanks Web, you have all this technical expertise and you count too!  Well you always did count.

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We used to use CDR's to back up jobs at work and have some that are 5 or 6 years old and still work fine but we are now using dvds.



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speaking of obsolecence, has anyone heard of Hi-8 video players, and know if they are still even made?

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The Hi-8's were kind of like the beta was to vhs. the vhs-c was kind of the replacement. The tape on the 8 was smaller and made it difficult to use an adapter on your regular vcr. the c was the same width tape as a vhs. I think they still make the tapes but not the player.

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JD The Jazz Doctor


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thanks sparky. have a treat!

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