Digital Media Archiving Challenges Hollywood

HarryCaul writes "Movies are moving to digital, but what about long-term archiving of the master source materials? Turns out it's harder for digital media than for contemporary analog. Data is being lost, and studios have to learn to cope. Phil Feiner of the AMPAS sci-tech division says when he worked on studio feature films he 'found missing frames or corrupted data on 40% of the data tapes that came in from digital intermediate houses' How to deal with it? Regular migration from old media to new media. Grover Crisp, says Sony has put in a program of migrating every two to three years. Other studios are following suit, but what about indie features? Will we lose films like we lost the originals of the 20s?"

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Re:I'm not surprised

[Sinkael]

You are so off base here that it isn't even funny, I really should point out your ignorance, but I get the feeling that you are so wrapped up in your beliefs that no matter what I tell you will be wasted.

Not to mention you spout off about amorality and apparently have no idea what it even is, I mean lets take 9/11 as a perfect example, to the US it was a horrible amoral act and yet to those committing the act it was a good, morale and just thing to do. Saying that having 70-75% of the global population disappear would make the remaining population all share the same idea of morals is ludicrous. Unless of course you are talking about having the remaining 25% all come from the same belief system, in which case I ask you who's belief deserve to survive?