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December 23, 2007
The slow death of digital cinema
Writes Michael Cieply in the New York Times: "To keep to keep the enormous swarm of data produced when a picture is “born digital” — that is, produced using all-electronic processes, rather than relying wholly or partially on film — pushes the cost of preservation to $208,569 a year, vastly higher than the $486 it costs to toss the equivalent camera negatives, audio recordings, on-set photographs and annotated scripts of an all-film production into the cold-storage vault." [More data at the link.]
Posted by Ray Pride at December 23, 2007 02:30 PM
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