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by ovao 3301 days ago
This is why many tend to consider only uncompressed/lossless formats viable for archival usage. Doubling down on those doesn't really address what you were talking about — something that you make today being viewable in browsers of the future — but with the original content itself preserved in a way that maintains its full quality, the 'deliverable' formats can be updated periodically from the original masters in a way that the content will be viewable with software 20 years from now, and without degrading quality each time.

We had similar problems in the past with physical media, and still do to some extent, but in the purely digital domain this problem is somewhat more tractable (content negotiation helps facilitate these transitions for those willing to work that into build pipelines and maintain those over time, for example.)