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Author Topic: Here's a shocker about D-Cinema! Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 04-04-2003 07:38 PM                        I guess it couldn't be any worse than SOLARIS. Good luck with it SPARCie.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-05-2003 01:28 PM                     No maybe we should start a hacker suspense film called "The Rear Window XP" probably media player will auto delete it  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 04-08-2003 07:28 AM                        quote: Undocumented compression schemes will also create problems with film "restoration" in the future. Imagine in fifty years if the only existing copy of a particular title is found in a theatre attic or basement and is compressed and/or encrypted with proprietary means for which documentation is not available. This might well result in a "lost" film due to the inability to recover the images stored on the data storage medium. I'd guess that problems in reading the data from whatever offline carrier is discovered in the attic would be more likely to stop you than decoding it. If you suddenly found a cache 8" discs from 20 years ago, you'd have to look pretty hard to find anyone with a working disc drive to read them; and even if you found someone, oxide shedding and/or other forms of chemical decomposition will probably have already destroyed the data. That is why archives still work with film and, despite the cost, will probably continue to do so. Preserving 'born digital' material is, of course, a major headache. I suspect that a large proportion of it will be lost.  |  IP: Logged

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