A recent posting has me wondering. Since the comsumer began using the home computer to do video editing has any video format become unplayable? Now obviously some have become obsolete but have any become unplayable. I got my first computer back in 1997. At that time wmv and mpeg1 seemed to have been the most popular. Not that I was paying close attention and could easily be wrong.
The reason I'm asking is that there are posts regularly on the best methods and formats for long term storage of video. Of course there is rarely one best method for anything. It all depends on capability and purpose. But it seems to me that once a format becomes more or less becomes common it will pretty much always be viewable. Even if in the future it becomes obsolete and no one uses it for new video, the player will still be available on the net.
The reason I'm asking is that there are posts regularly on the best methods and formats for long term storage of video. Of course there is rarely one best method for anything. It all depends on capability and purpose. But it seems to me that once a format becomes more or less becomes common it will pretty much always be viewable. Even if in the future it becomes obsolete and no one uses it for new video, the player will still be available on the net.