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   The Doctor to ldo@nz.invalid   
   Re: BABYLON 5 is now free to watch!   
   15 Feb 26 01:40:41   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.drwho   
   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <10mqth3$3hgik$11@dont-email.me>,   
   Lawrence D˙Oliveiro   wrote:   
   >On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:39:26 -0000 (UTC), The Doctor wrote:   
   >   
   >> I would take physical over digital.   
   >   
   >If there is an analog format worth resurrecting, it’s tape.   
   >   
   >Vinyl remains stuck in the 1970s, but the humble cassette tape   
   >continued evolving long after that, with things like chromiun and   
   >barium oxides, metal particles, new kinds of Dolby noise reduction,   
   >and what-all.   
   >   
   >Speaking of noise reduction, remember that vinyl has this convoluted   
   >thing called the “RIAA equalization curve”. Back in the day, you had   
   >ceramic versus magnetic pickups, and one of them had to compensate for   
   >the curve, but the other did not (I forget which was which). How could   
   >you be sure either way that you were compensating for the curve   
   >exactly? You didn’t.   
      
   Tape vs Digital Versatile Data format. What will not deteriorate?   
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