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Re:25 years of video clips gona as Paramount axes Comedy Cen... by ryandrake on Thursday June 27, 2024 @01:47AM (#40807652)
Brings up an interesting topic: if I wanted to preserve a movie for 100,000 or even 1,000,000 years, how would I do it? What physical media would last that long, and could actually be played back correctly and accurately by some archaeologist in the year 1,002,025?
Re:25 years of video clips gona as Paramount axes Comedy Cen... by mk_stjames on Thursday June 27, 2024 @02:30AM (#40807908)
Plated of quartz, etched internally via focused femtosecond pulsed-laser to create tiny voids or just changes in crystal lattice that encode bits as changes in the polarization of light passing back through the glass.

It's been studied in various ways for a while now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical_data_storage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7L_wdEuQXs

Re:25 years of video clips gona as Paramount axes Comedy Cen... by bezier-curve on Thursday June 27, 2024 @02:18AM (#40807815)
The best we have are M-Discs, a type of durable BD-R disc that are supposed to last up to 1000 years.
Re:25 years of video clips gona as Paramount axes Comedy Cen... by mordae on Thursday June 27, 2024 @02:20AM (#40807840)
None. Found a monastery to make copies every thousand years or so.