Those figures can't be right.
To keep old film media, you need a huge warehouse, with temperature and humidity control. Too hot and humid, fungus growth. Too cold, it brittle. And guess how much to run such warehouse? Building the warehouse, install temperature control equipment, maintenance, electricity bills,etc, it can easily cost millions.
I bet it is an accountant that help make up the report. Many accountant refuse to change the mindset of inventory pile up and warehouse cost. Isn't it obvious, since transfer "new media" involved cost, but film media wont' incur much of it. Well, not before you took into account of the cost of running the super warehouse for old films.
OTH, reducing the films reel to digital forms to DVDRAM/Blueray/HDDVD, Terabytes disk platter can shrink the medium and reduce warehouse size, and save millions on long terms maintenance bills.
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Those figures can't be right. To keep old film media, you need a huge warehouse, with temperature and humidity control. Too hot and humid, fungus growth. Too cold, it brittle. And guess how much to run such warehouse? Building the warehouse, install temperature control equipment, maintenance, electricity bills,etc, it can easily cost millions. I bet it is an accountant that help make up the report. Many accountant refuse to change the mindset of inventory pile up and warehouse cost. Isn't it obvious, since transfer "new media" involved cost, but film media wont' incur much of it. Well, not before you took into account of the cost of running the super warehouse for old films. OTH, reducing the films reel to digital forms to DVDRAM/Blueray/HDDVD, Terabytes disk platter can shrink the medium and reduce warehouse size, and save millions on long terms maintenance bills.