warning on formats and media

[Katie Alcock]

Traditional videotapes also go mouldy in a tropical climate ­ I understand
it is due to the gelatine on the tape, I would imagine this could  happen
with DV tapes too, if they are made using any similar animal or vegetable
material.


Katie Alcock


Katie Alcock, DPhil
Lecturer
Department of Psychology
University of Lancaster
Fylde College
Lancaster LA1 4YF
Tel 01524 593833
Fax 01524 593744
Web http://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk/people/KatieAlcock.html



From: "Madalena Cruz-Ferreira" <ellmcf at nus.edu.sg>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:21:47 +0800
To: "Peyton Todd" <peytontodd at mindspring.com>,
<info-childes at mail.talkbank.org>
Subject: RE: warning on formats and media

Dear Peyton and all,
 
Just one short addition to what you wrote:
>no one knows how long DVDs will keep. I'm really scared of them myself.
 
If you live in a tropical climate, they will besides rot away wherever you
store them -- unless you ziplock them, one by one. I learned this the hard
way. So yes, external hard drives are my current choice too. But I also had
to learn not to use them to full capacity. If I do, I can't access their
contents on my laptop. The technician who recently helped me retrieve my
files told me that these drives were created with portability in mind, not
as permanent storage devices.
Thanks for all this really, really useful information!
 
Madalena 
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Madalena Cruz-Ferreira
Dept. English Language and Literature
National University of Singapore
ellmcf at nus.edu.sg 
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellmcf/
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Dear Info-Childes:
 


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