Re:Optical storage – the future of long term data preservati...
by mkj on Sunday November 14, 2021 @08:35PM
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It looks like the original M-Disc went broke but discs are still being made by Verbatim? That one looked more promising than other formats, at least it's readable by normal drives. Future terapixel cameras or scanners could probably decode a disc from an image, right?
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Re:Optical storage – the future of long term data preservati...
by Kye on Monday November 15, 2021 @07:59AM
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Shiny discs need a laser in a dark, stable space with lots of cache and a purpose-built lens and sensor to read them reliably. I don't see a camera or a scanner having that reliability.
Every new pixel you want to render from a lens reveals more and more flaws. That's why older lenses often perform poorly on newer digital cameras: the designers didn't have to contend with 24, 50, 100... megapixel sensors. Even the 24 baseline already pushes what the film they make 4K remasters from can support and that's twice as big as what most film still cameras use.