08-09-2023, 08:07 PM
These things go full circle though and technology doesn't always kill the legacy off - vinyl made a come back (some may say it never went away) as did cassettes made a comeback, in an era of digital MP3/4/OGG streaming which may provide better quality audio (not that I'd notice), but its still basically a file on a computer at the end of the day and you don't own a physical copy.
I still have tapes and CDs and DVDs and my parents still have lots of their original vinyl records they bought when they were young, plus they still have a lot of CDs, DVDs and videotapes and the ability to play all this stuff. Which is nice. Yes they have a computer but it's been there since about 2006 in various guises of hardware over the years and its has never seen an MP3 file, and I doubt it ever will.
Audio's different though to visual media as it's the same music whether you hear it on the radio, a tape, a record or a potato.
Whether visual medium (like video/VHS and potentially DVD) make a comeback remains to be seen, but the variables on its quality are wider ranging. Probably doesn't help that broadcasters seem to treat archive material in bad ways.
I still have tapes and CDs and DVDs and my parents still have lots of their original vinyl records they bought when they were young, plus they still have a lot of CDs, DVDs and videotapes and the ability to play all this stuff. Which is nice. Yes they have a computer but it's been there since about 2006 in various guises of hardware over the years and its has never seen an MP3 file, and I doubt it ever will.
Audio's different though to visual media as it's the same music whether you hear it on the radio, a tape, a record or a potato.
Whether visual medium (like video/VHS and potentially DVD) make a comeback remains to be seen, but the variables on its quality are wider ranging. Probably doesn't help that broadcasters seem to treat archive material in bad ways.