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Graham Ritchie
Film God

Posts: 4001
From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006

posted September 10, 2013 12:14 AM

I guess things are not all "gloom and doom" [Big Grin]

..found a place in town that sells "records" They are making a bit of a come back out here and the folk that own this business are doing pretty good. However they sell heaps of second hand CDs and DVDs as well as records so there is something for everyone.

Its great to rummage through "records" again...some good stuff.

Graham.

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Robert Crewdson
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1031
From: UK
Registered: Jun 2013

posted September 10, 2013 06:49 AM

Went past a place yesterday that had plenty of turntables in the window.

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Mike McCord
Film Handler

Posts: 36
From: Birmingham, AL, USA
Registered: Jun 2013

posted September 10, 2013 07:18 AM

Having spent the last 25 years being a "reputer compairman", I have been able to recover data from non-working cd's and dvd's - and you can too!
There are several programs available that will read the "good" parts of the platter and allow for recovery. Often enough, you wind up with the whole cd/dvd data image and all you have to do is burn it to another platter.
One program I have used is http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/.
Do a google search and you can find many others...(I am not associated with this or any other product or company.) Try this, you have nothing to lose!

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Yanis Tzortzis
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 531
From: Greece
Registered: Aug 2005

posted September 10, 2013 11:24 AM

...speaking of USB sticks, bought one last month...512 GB space! And no, haven't stored any movies on it! [Razz]

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Yannis

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Bill Brandenstein
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1632
From: California
Registered: Aug 2007

posted September 10, 2013 05:28 PM

Mike, that's a great idea but at some point whatever's causing the error rates to rise will overtake any drive's ability to create a useful "average" of what's readable on the disc. I'm hoping that someone will invent a drive that has laser-modification options (color, timing, intensity) that will be adaptive to decomposing dyes.

Meanwhile, expensive gold-wafer archival discs are probably still the safest bet, best ordered through professional bulk suppliers - if you don't mind spending $250 for a spindle of 100. (I do.)

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