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Media History – Audio, Photo, Film/Video
(w = wikipedia. In italic = when technology was the prevalent technology, when introduced within parentheses when present, not (necessary) when J&P and family started using.)
| Audio | Photo | Film/Video | ||
| 1960s | * Magnetic tape (w) (C-J) | * 120 and 220 film (w) (C-J) * 135 film (w) (C-J) |
* 8mm Film (C-J) | |
| 1970s | * LP record (w) * Cassette tape (w) |
* 126 film (wikipedia) (J) | ||
| 1980s | * CD (w) (J:’86) | * 135 film (w) (J) | * VHS (w) * Video8 (’85) |
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| 1990s | * MP3 (w; ’91) * napster etc (w) * AAC (w, ’97) |
* 135 film (w) (J) * APS (w) (J&P) (’98-’05) |
* Video8/jp (J; ’93-’99) | |
| * DVD (w; ’96) * MPEG-2 (’94) * MPEG-4 (Part 2) (’98) |
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| 2000s | * iPods (w; ’01) * iTunes (w; ’01) |
* APS (w) (J&P) (’98-’05) | (No video shot earlier part of 2000s…?! Can’t find any.) | |
| 2003 | * H.264, MPEG-4 Part 10, AVC (2003) | |||
| 2005 | 2005-11-28: Canon PowerShot SD450 5MP | <- 640×320 @ 30 fps, AVI | ||
| 2009 | 2009-12-24: Canon PowerShot SD780 IS 12MP | <- 1280×720 @ 30 fps, MOV (MPEG-4) | ||
| 2010s | ||||
| 2013 | * H.265, MPEG-H Part 2, HEVC (2013) | |||
| 2015 | (Jan 2015) Throw away all VHS cassettes and players (2). | |||
| 2020s | ||||
| 2020 | Oct 2020: iPhone 12 Pro. | |||
| 2020 | (Dec 2020) Finally getting rid of ALL remaining CDs – data and music, as well as data DVDs. Will soon enough not have ANY computer able to play CDs or DVDs. (At this time only have left a IM27 ’10 and IM27 ’11 that has CD/DVD drive.) Destroyed 317 disks (!) in December 2020 after ensuring having copies on hard disks of relevant materials (docs, media). (Movie DVDs is a different matter, as do continue to keep players for such – SE/PAL and US/NTSC zones.) |
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| 2020 end, J&P status |
All audio digitized. MP3, AAC/MP4…) | Photos albums, negatives, photos, 1960s-2005, lots to do. | All (home) video digitized. MPG/MPEG-2 (some still), some transcode to MPEG-4 AVC |
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| Photos since 2005 digital. | ||||
| 2021 fut. | ||||
Legend
| Analog | #99FFFF |
| Digital | #99FF33 |
| Stop use | #ff8888 |
See also Data – a J&P MLabs Main Category for some more information on floppies, CDs, DVDs.
Video-Focus
A bit more on transcoding history.
| Era | Original Material – Film/Video | Transcoding / Conversion Phases | |
| 1960s 1970s |
8 mm Film * 8mm Film (C-J) 1960s into early 1970s. * No more film during 70s, as far as know |
⇒ | (#1) 1980s sometime: transfered to VHS, by external service. VHS cassettes to every family member. |
| (#2) 2006-01: digitized by J, HP media PC, to .mpg files, MPEG-2. (10.34 GB, all files) | |||
| (#2b) Also created DVDs (DVD# 602051) for every family member. Note: transcoding settings for fitting media onto one DVD compressed material to around 4.61 GB. | |||
| (#3) 2020-12-01: transcoded from MPEG-2 files (#2) to MPEG-4/AVC/H.264, by J. Tests, to try out suitable settings. MPEG-2 – files: 10.34 GB MPEG-4 – files: 3.21 GB (69% smaller!) |
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| TO-DOs: – change background music to own, better (easy, as long as can find suitable music), and aside technical setup to parse through all small files and replace sound tracks…… – try cleaning up video material, scratches, colors, … (advanced) – transcode to H.265. |
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| 1980s |
VHS Video * VHS (w): Got a few moose-hunting films shot by Kjell Hultfeldt, ’88, ’89, ’92. (No own materials shot in 1980s, was a poor student then, no access to any film/video cam.) |
⇒ | (#1) 2006-01: digitized by J, HP media PC, to .mpg files, MPEG-2. (13 GB, all files) |
| (#2) 2020-12-01: transcoded from MPEG-2 files (#1) to MPEG-4/AVC/H.264, by J. Tests, to try out suitable settings. MPEG-2 – files: 13.1 GB MPEG-4 – files: 6.7 GB (49% smaller!) (Note: not sure selected transcoding settings are optimal…) |
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| TO-DOs: – clean up sound! try increase sound of speech! – more ideas at Älgjakt Sep 1989 |
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| 1990s |
Video8 (8 mm Video) * Video8/jp (J; ’93-’99) |
⇒ | (#1) 2006-02: digitized by J, HP media PC, to .mpg files, MPEG-2. (23.9 GB, all files) |
| (#2) 2020-12-28-29: transcoded from MPEG-2 files (#1) to MPEG-4/AVC/H.264, by J. Tests, to try out suitable settings. MPEG-2 – files: 23.9 GB MPEG-4 – files: 18.8 GB (21% smaller) (Note: not sure selected transcoding settings are optimal…) |
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| TO-DOs: – certainly not sure transcoding settings are optimal… |
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| 2000s | Canon Digital Cameras *(No video shot earlier part of 2000s…?! Can’t find any.) * Canon SD450 dig. cam., 1st video 2005-12-10, MVI_0036.AVI * Canon SD780 dig. cam., 1st video 2009-12-24, 200912241722-0006.MOV |
TO-DOs: – transcode old original recordings in what-ever encoding(s) used (got at least one motion-JPEG (!) from SD450) to H.264 or H.265. |
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| 2010s 2020s |
iPhones * iPhone 3GS 2009-06-19 sh (20090619_0006.MOV 1st video?) … * iPhones 12 Pro 2020-10-24 (1st media) |
TO-DOs: none (yet) planned at this time. |