VCF suggestions... (film vs digital)

[Tim Shoppa]

> BTW what are you doing to preserve your VHS tapes?  Remember VHS
> equipment are disappearing fast from the retail market

What's really sad is I know many people who had their Super-8 movie
film transferred to VHS in the 90's and threw away the originals.

Now most Super-8 film was not stored in exactly "archival" condition
but I'm 100% sure that it would've outlived the VHS tape.  And
Super-8 projectors, while not the simplest devices in the world,
are certainly maintainable.

Yeah, I know, I'm OT in the "computer hardware sense" but I think
the same principles may in some cases be applicable to computer media.

Tim.