[Richard Crowley]

wrote ...
(Scott Dorsey) wrote:

I'm going under the assumption that they would be archived on stamped
media - ie. "real" CD/DVD's.

It's basically very expensive to press real CDs onsie-twosie. You could
do it, but people don't.


Surely this would be a pittance to whoever owns the masters of the big
name acts, particularly to protect something that's probably very
valuable not to mention irreplaceable. Having multiple copies easily
stored in various places means no chance of being lost in a fire, etc.

As big as their catalogs are, I would think it would pay to have their
own in-house capability to do this. I assume it would also be more
practical to have them ready to go in a digital format.

But for less cost you could archive the data on literally a dozen other
media from four kinds of tape to writable optical discs to hard drives.
It just makes no sense no matter how much $$$$ you have.