Lots of Master Tapes are still stored away safe in the underground climate controlled vaults, though.

What's becoming unobtanium are THE MACHINES.

Whenever there's a project to resurrect an old Master for digital reprocessing, the call goes out for the few who have maintained certain old pieces of equipment just waiting for the moment. It will surely cost more and more to do it that way as time goes by, too.

There's another problem there also IMO.

A lot of "digitally remastered" stuff is crap. Run it through the Sony automated mastering software and call it a good job. Poo.


--Mac