[Trevor]

On 28/02/2017 1:21 PM, Nil wrote:
On 27 Feb 2017, Trevor wrote in rec.audio.pro:
Try reading what I actually wrote!
"PHYSICAL" space compared to a few years ago.
You can get 128GB+ micro SD cards now!!!!!

Well, OK, I see what you're trying to say. However, you really mean
that the storage medium takes up less physical space,

Yes, that's what I wrote. The data takes up less physical space on the
storage medium as well due to far higher density, so there is no other
way to interpret it.


and you're right about that.

Size and cost is simply no longer an issue, other than for the
Library of Congress perhaps!

I'd say that it's *less* of an issue - if it were not an issue, data
storage media wouldn't continue to shrink, which it still does every
day in amazing ways.

Not really an issue for *audio* storage any more, still an issue for
video though. Just as the problem was gone with Standard Definition, we
went to HiDef. When that was almost a non issue along comes 4k. They are
already talking about 8k video, and that's all compressed of course.
Audio OTOH remains fine for distribution at 16/44. Recording 24 tracks
at 24/96 takes up a bit more space on the hard drive however, but that's
a different issue than what we are talking about here. NOBODY records 24
tracks to MP3 that I know of! The cost of a hard drive, or memory cards
now, is minuscule compared to the cost of 2" tape.

Trevor.