What I mean is: You can type an entire novel on a computer, and oopsie a random cosmic bitflip and system crashes and now its all gone. Or you do a lot of filming and the digital file can get corrupted. Where as stuff like, a typewriter, it's less likely to just be all gone due to some malfunctions. Same with film, a cosmic bitflip can't delete all your footage.

Know what I'm sayin'?

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[–] 14 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Right a big selling point for digital was the ability to make a ton of copies and not have to physically store it in a file cabinet or something

Back in the day there was a fire where they stored military records and a ton of "permenant" records went up in smoke

Really you need the ability to have both in case one fails

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Ok......but thats not an arguement for or against analog or digital. You're just making the case for redundancy. You can achieve the same thing by making a copy of analog files, and simply storing the copies in a different place.

    NOW if the permanent records burn, there's a backup. And that's the point of redundancy.

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