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I hope you're right, Zoobster. As others have said, there's no point in stressing until we KNOW what has been lost. Speculation just does everyone's head in.
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Perhaps this could be my youthful ignorance (or a major lack of coffee and knowledge this morning) but seeming that we are now in the 'digital age' why have'nt film studios digitised masters of their film and audio catalogues...surely it is safer to have digital copies of all masters that can be spread and backed up over multiple servers than being left on a single or multiple media that can be burned...
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But this would be include the LP masters to UMG labels like Decca (Cowboy by Duning?), ABC (Gold by Elmer?), 20th Century Fox (old Malcolm Arnold titles), things like that.
 What does this mean for all those long OOP Williams titles like Jaws 2, Dracula and Earthquake? Maybe varese still has masters? But I imagine they'd gone back to universal?
If a title has already been released on CD then I don't think there's a problem - just do a digital dubb from the CD. Who'd know the difference. Once it's been digitally remastered, & the CD sold to the big wide world, then it's impossible to lose. Which is all too much trouble for these very big multi-national companies.
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Firstly, lets hope no scores were lost and secondly, lets hope no people were killed.
Call me crazy, but I'd put those two the other way round. In the vast scheme of things, scores are a hell of a lot less important than people. If it was a choice between losing a loved one and losing the Spartacus masters - you couldn't blink in the time it would take me to torch the tapes.
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Richard I was of course kidding. I did hear a few firefighters did get hurt, so lets wish they a quick and speedy recovery!!
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It seems there's still no confirmation of the dire predictions regarding music masters posted in the OP...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/02/national/main4144069.shtml
This time around, thousands of videos chronicling Universal's movie and TV shows were destroyed in the blaze.
But Universal officials said that they were thankful no one was seriously injured at the theme park and that the damaged footage can be replaced.
"We have duplicates of everything," said NBC Universal President and Chief Operating Officer Ron Meyer. "Nothing is lost forever."
Meyer estimated there were 40,000 to 50,000 videos and reels in a video vault that burned but said duplicates were stored in a different location. Firefighters managed to recover hundreds of titles.
The videos included every film that Universal has produced and footage from television series including "Miami Vice" and "I Love Lucy."
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The one part of that report that isn't correct is that "I Love Lucy" wouldn't be stored in any vault at Universal since they had nothing to do with the making of the show.
I still wish they'd clarify if the point about "duplicates" refers to other video transfers like those that were lost or whether they just mean the undamaged negatives.
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Nothing gets wasted or lost.
LOL.
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Because it would cost a lot of money and unless there is some way to make a profit, this year or this quarter, they are very unlikely to piss the money away.
Well if they lose some unrecoverable master material it would likely cost them more in the future I would think...just a thought...
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