December 22, 2007 5:19 AM PST

The afterlife is expensive for digital movies

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Industry report says movie studios must address digital archiving problems now or risk losing movie archives forever.
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I'll do it for $100,000.00 a year
by jltnol December 22, 2007 8:25 PM PST: This just seems crazy!

Regardless of how much data is generated, $200.000. would
buy a lot of RAIDs... in different cities for safety.

You could keep the drives running, and as new storage
technology come along, just copy it over.

Still the over $200,000 figure seems way out of line.; Reply to this comment View reply
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This issue is resolved with separation masters
by markjazz December 22, 2007 11:22 PM PST: Last year TDI (part of Technicolor) and EFILM (part of Deluxe) received Academy award for technical achievement for creating a separation master that can store the color channels on three black and white films. This will allow preservation for more than hundred years, stored in the same salt mines. More info at: http://oscar.com/oscarnight/?pn=technicalachievement; Reply to this comment

And some movies aren't worth the bits
by CharlesRovira December 23, 2007 10:27 AM PST: they're stored on.

Be that as it may, one of the problems with digital media is that it has a rapid (<10 years) life cycle.

It doesn't matter what kind of content (old Word documents are gone forever,) the audio and video wolds are evolving over the years as formats change.

Nobody is thinking of maintaining file compatibility.; Reply to this comment View reply
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