'Hobbit' Creates Big Data Challenge

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 3, 2013 @05:15AM from the such-a-small-creature-makes-such-a-big-difference dept.

CowboyRobot writes "In the past five years there has been an 8x increase in the amount of content being generated per every two-hour cinematic piece. Although 3D is not new, modern 3D technologies add from 100% to 200% more data per frame. In 2009, Avatar was one of the first movies to generate about a petabyte of information. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was shot in a new digital format called High Frame Rate 3-D, which displays the movie at 48 frames per second, twice the standard 24-fps rate that's been in place for more than 80 years." But with digital storage transcending some other limitations of conventional projection techniques, it's not just framerate that directors are now able to play with more easily; it's the length of movies themselves, which stats suggest just keep getting longer.

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Re:Smart play by the studios by hpacheco · 2013-01-03 05:22 · Score: 4, Funny

:poor guys that pirated avatar.. they had to download over a petabyte:
Re:Comment on Movie length by interkin3tic · 2013-01-03 05:27 · Score: 5, Funny

Until they do bring it back, there is an app for that
Re:How big was the hobbit? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-03 05:30 · Score: 5, Funny

According to the torrent sites; 2.32 GB though they do use the lossy video camera conversion...
Wikipedia to the rescue by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-03 05:31 · Score: 5, Funny

Tolkien writes that Hobbits are between two and four feet (0.61–1.22 m) tall, the average height being three feet six inches (1.07 m).
Re:Smart play by the studios by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-03 06:08 · Score: 5, Funny

I know people who are still downloading it, you insensitive clod!