Sunday, February 07, 2010
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Friday, February 05, 2010
How to preserve and share your home movies
Re: David Pogue's blog posting on NY Times.com http://bit.ly/c5S7n2 ....
I'm all for capturing, preserving and SHARING family/home movies. But storing old movies on local discs is not the ultimate solution. Hard drives will fail over time (MTBF), and DVD as well (environmental degradation, etc.). For me, the solution is to put them online. YouTube allows personal page to be set up. This enables easy sharing, remotely, with other family members. I've already done this with home movies going back to the 1950's, originally captured on 16mm film (which were transferred to VHS, then DVD). Does anyone think that Google will not be around in 10 years or more, and that these YouTube videos will be available for continued sharing? Compared to hard drives, which will ultimatley fail after, say, 5 years of use?
See the Playlist of my grandfather John's movies here:
http://www.youtube.com/tcurley#g/p
I'm all for capturing, preserving and SHARING family/home movies. But storing old movies on local discs is not the ultimate solution. Hard drives will fail over time (MTBF), and DVD as well (environmental degradation, etc.). For me, the solution is to put them online. YouTube allows personal page to be set up. This enables easy sharing, remotely, with other family members. I've already done this with home movies going back to the 1950's, originally captured on 16mm film (which were transferred to VHS, then DVD). Does anyone think that Google will not be around in 10 years or more, and that these YouTube videos will be available for continued sharing? Compared to hard drives, which will ultimatley fail after, say, 5 years of use?
See the Playlist of my grandfather John's movies here:
http://www.youtube.com/tcurley#g/p
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