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Post by Marie Griffiths on Jul 27, 2015 18:10:24 GMT
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Post by Jeff Leach on Jul 28, 2015 11:47:59 GMT
Great restoration work, but how do they ensure that the digital copies don't suffer from data fade - they could be gone in 20 years, I know it's expensive but major film companies make new celluloid copies to archive.
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jul 30, 2015 23:49:24 GMT
The answer is making sure there are multiple backups on multiple servers in multiple locations. The world is going digital - technology has moved on. How many movies are actually made on film these days? How many cinemas are still using film projectors?
Digital archiving is the way forward and once a film is in the digital domain it's never going to suffer from vinegar syndrome again...
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Post by Peter Stirling on Jul 31, 2015 7:26:41 GMT
The answer is making sure there are multiple backups on multiple servers in multiple locations. The world is going digital - technology has moved on. How many movies are actually made on film these days? How many cinemas are still using film projectors? Digital archiving is the way forward and once a film is in the digital domain it's never going to suffer from vinegar syndrome again... Not quite so, digital movies are being archived on 35mm film for long term storage simply because they know they will be able to play them in the future, we can't be certain what digital format will survive or what will cause its degradation. Modern film materials do not suffer with vinegar syndrome. The situation is similar to the arrival of videotape in 1950s, many tapes got wiped because it was easy come easy go and today we struggle to find equipment to play what is left, we have to rely in a lot of cases on a film copy being available. |
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Post by brianfretwell on Jul 31, 2015 18:58:20 GMT
The only 100% way with digital files, as far as I can see, is to have a regulated regime to copy every few years to new media comparing with all originals for errors. File format changes would have to be allowed for and converted. It is very expensive and time consuming, so I assume no-one does it. A time goes on the amount of work grows as more things ate recorded digitised
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