Tag archive 'Open Formats'

What to do with all the DVDs?

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-02-07

As a media consumer I have quite a large DVD collection (approximately 250 disks). But what should I do with all these disks once the new and incompatible formats have taken over? For how long will I be able to even watch these movies? Do I even watch them?

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Thoughts on storage and archiving

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-01-29

Digital archiving is becoming an increasing problem for me. What do I keep, and why? For now I am trying to archive as much as possible. Just because I have no good way of determining what to keep. But then storage becomes a problem!

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Multimedia is failing as a form of entertainment

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-01-14

Digital multimedia is failing. There are so many competing formats, and it is so hard to get by leagal files. It has become too much an effort to buy a film or a song! If you were actually to find something, it would be in a format that would be not be accessible in just a few years. The industry must unite or digital multimedia will soon fail as a type of entertainment.

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Donations to open source in 2007

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-01-06

Here is my money donations to various open source projects and causes in 2007:

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