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The high cost of archiving all-digital productions
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article published on 23 December, 2007
According to a report released last month by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, best known as the group behind the Oscars, the movie industry is getting ready to face a crisis in movie archiving. Ironically the problems are being caused not by aging celluloid (film) but rather the move to digital filmmaking.
For consumers digital video has been a blessing. It puts at our ... [ read the full article ]
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24. December 2007 @ 08:16 |
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Originally posted by article:
Digital productions, on the other hand, can cost as much as $208,569 to fully archive in a similar manner.
Give me that job, I'd buy about 10 1TB disc drives, a raid controller, then keep the other $200G for my hard work. Quote:
even hard drives have their limitations, and must be spun periodically to keep the moving parts working.
I'll check them daily for 200G's.......
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24. December 2007 @ 16:33 |
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Just have a triple back-up plan.
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25. December 2007 @ 13:36 |
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Quote:
Originally posted by article:
Digital productions, on the other hand, can cost as much as $208,569 to fully archive in a similar manner.
Give me that job, I'd buy about 10 1TB disc drives, a raid controller, then keep the other $200G for my hard work. Quote:
even hard drives have their limitations, and must be spun periodically to keep the moving parts working.
I'll check them daily for 200G's.......
For real.
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25. December 2007 @ 20:42 |
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Quote:
Originally posted by article:
Digital productions, on the other hand, can cost as much as $208,569 to fully archive in a similar manner.
Give me that job, I'd buy about 10 1TB disc drives, a raid controller, then keep the other $200G for my hard work. Quote:
even hard drives have their limitations, and must be spun periodically to keep the moving parts working.
I'll check them daily for 200G's.......
Amen. Sign my happy butt up!
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28. December 2007 @ 19:18 |
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They have to think of short term cost for long term gain. :)
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28. December 2007 @ 19:22 |
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I like the idea of short term gain.
I'll work six months, pay me 100k and i walk away.
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RootFold
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1. January 2008 @ 15:46 |
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Why don't they just put them on DVD HD or Blue Ray? Make 10 copies and store them in 10 different sites, that will cover the first 100 years!
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6. May 2008 @ 16:26 |
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Originally posted by RootFold:
Why don't they just put them on DVD HD or Blue Ray? Make 10 copies and store them in 10 different sites, that will cover the first 100 years!
I think the hard part of this is that technology tends become obsolete as new ways of doing things are constantly being developed. Take the audio CD, for example. It has only been around for 20 odd years, and yet it has already started to become over shadowed by digital downloads.
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6. May 2008 @ 17:58 |
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This is just their very transparent ploy to cry wolf and raise the price of movies and dvds.
"The flimsier the product,the higher the price"
Ferengi 82nd rule of aqusition
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goodswipe
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6. May 2008 @ 18:06 |
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Originally posted by Deadrum33:
Originally posted by article:
Digital productions, on the other hand, can cost as much as $208,569 to fully archive in a similar manner.
Give me that job, I'd buy about 10 1TB disc drives, a raid controller, then keep the other $200G for my hard work. Quote:
even hard drives have their limitations, and must be spun periodically to keep the moving parts working.
I'll check them daily for 200G's.......
Goodswipe's MSA60
Over 10tb of storage space?
/y0nK!
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