Impermanence of digital media

I can’t see that happening. Everything can still read bitmap and that’s been a somewhat obsolete picture format for a couple of decades. Pictures are easy. Video is problematic given the complexity of the formats. Although I haven’t run into a situation where an old video will not play on a modern machine. I’m talking MS Video 1 encoded, circa 1995. You’ll end up having more obsolescence with your media and hardware than with the decoding of the files that are on it (assuming it’s a somewhat generic format).

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