{"id":3753,"date":"2008-10-27T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/10\/cold-dead-media\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:46:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:46:50","slug":"cold-dead-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/10\/cold-dead-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold dead media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARADISEC&#8217;s director<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zip.com.au\/~lbarwick\/\"> Linda Barwick<\/a> has been raising the alarm for years about the way media are becoming obsolete because the machines to read them are dying.<br \/>\nSo it was very sad to hear the death-rattle on the <a href=\"http:\/\/childes.psy.cmu.edu\/\">CHILDES<\/a> list in this message from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.cmu.edu\/faculty\/macwhinney.shtml\">Brian MacWhinney<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Colleagues,<br \/>\nIt appears that we are now just about at the end of the rope in  terms of our ability to rescue by digitization any data from the 1970s  and early 1980s that was recorded using the half-inch reel-to-reel  video of that time.  The problem is that the machines required to play  these tapes are now virtually all non-functional.   And there are no  &#8220;new&#8221; units of this type that one can purchase.  I have been working  with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canaanmedia.com\/\">Canaan Media<\/a> in New Jersey to rescue old audio and video through  digitization.  The old reel-to-reel audio is not at all a problem and  the machines that read these tapes will last still for decades.   However, the Sony and Toshiba machines that read the half-inch helical  tapes seem to be more sensitive.  Canaan Media has three of the Sony  AV-3650 machines, but none of them are operational.  They have asked  me to post a note to info-childes asking if anyone has operational  machines like the Sony AV-3650. If so, we would be happy to pay for shipping costs to send these to New Jersey&#8230;..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go to info-childes AT    googlegroups.com for  more information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARADISEC&#8217;s director Linda Barwick has been raising the alarm for years about the way media are becoming obsolete because the machines to read them are dying. So it was very sad to hear the death-rattle on the CHILDES list in this message from Brian MacWhinney Dear Colleagues, It appears that we are now just about &#8230; <a title=\"Cold dead media\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/10\/cold-dead-media\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cold dead media\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4254,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions\/4254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}