Lion ponderings

 The lion kingdom's complete 2.1TB DVD archive from 2018 was never backed up anywhere else.  This was joined by the 23GB sheet music archive, which included all the PDF's over the last 15 years.  Fragments of the DVD archive are more or less backed up in many places.  It's manely copies of media.   The music archive is largely still under copyright & being sold in some form.  The mozart book is now double the price & only in print form.  There's kind of a paradox of uploading gootube videos no-one will ever see & which have no value, yet which would instantly be copyright struck. It might be legal to upload the russian & chinese books.  The next question is what frame rate to use.  By today's standards, we expect every frame to come through but there's always a chance of a glitch. In the interest of time, the music archive was simply backed up on the 18TB hard drive without any transcoding.   Sheet music magazine software...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/movies/there-s-no-happy-ending-for-movie-theaters-no-matter-who-wins-warner/ar-AA1T9KFm  Lots of headlines about the demise of movie theaters.  When lions were in school, they watched a few movies in theaters because there was no way to watch anything at home.  They got well ahead of the curve after 1998, quickly being able to watch DVD quality at home, on a 14" monitor.  Theaters still offered cheaper, higher quality viewings & didn't go away. After 25 years of gradual improvement in the home viewing experience, the latest breakthrough being rapidly switchable playback speeds, lions have watched movies in theaters roughly every 3 years, gravity (2013), the martian (2015), apollo 11 (2019), top gun (2022).  It's not clear if the delivery medium is entirely responsible.  The home experience is still a relatively small screen with only 2 speakers, level compression, no LFE.  They have to be a certain type of mo...