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Maybe this doesn't count under your definition of "viewable" but I'm sure one would be able to recover a very high number of photos. If not from the remains of
by glifchits 12y ago
Maybe this doesn't count under your definition of "viewable" but I'm sure one would be able to recover a very high number of photos. If not from the remains of a single hard drive, than from the remains of many hard drives that had once saved or cached that photo. (again, technically and physically challenging, I know)
- Aloha 12y agoMy argument is more - there will be a time in the future (probably in my lifetime) where there are no modern computers that can read jpeg - much less the multitude of raw formats so many people seem to want to store their images in. We've seen it with obsolete video tape formats, and other media too. The only real preservation method with digital is to keep it in either online storage, and then reformat it to whatever the current is - or transform it back to analog and store that.
- maxerickson 12y agoJpeg is already more than 20 years old and there are multiple liberally licensed implementations. Between that and the tendency for people to emulate everything, I don't think it will be a problem to read jpeg in the future. There's open code for the raw formats too.