I was thinking yesterday of how many old programmes are eventually brought out on DVD, or even on the netflix, amazon type services.
I'm a bit of a collector of older British comedies, mostly of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s eras.
One problem I've noticed is when I've watched a comedy with a good actor in, I tend to look for other programmes they are in. But sometimes the programmes were either wiped by the TV channel or there are only 1 or 2 episodes i.e. its an incomplete series (similar thing happens with old radio series too).
So I was thinking really TV channels these days should be trying to archive in storage drives as many programmes as they can do for future generations.
But then it got me thinking how big the drives would have to be. I think the channels used to store them on tapes that kept getting wiped and over written. But storage drives will be able to hold a lot more data. But then we probably produce more programmes. I'm assuming they are storing programmes these days. But what do they use now they don't use tapes? How big would the drives have to be? How big is the biggest hard drive?
I wonder one day if all the programmes could be moved on to hard drives and maybe for an extra fee the achieve could be opened up and we could watch all programmes ever made