well video casettes went that way...a lot of people had to pay for copying services just to get their wedding movies onto dvd hux...
makes it the more important to have open formats and open standards...shit happens, we can always read the format and transfer it to a new format 2009/12/11 Mike Aubury <[email protected]> > Does make you wonder about our 'digital heritage' though... > "Film" has been around for over a hundred years, easy to process even if > you > dont have a projector.. > > I doubt they'll be IDE/SATA adapters around in a hundred years time... > They've already run into problems with a BBC "doomsday" project done in > 1986 - > which was recorded to "laserdiscs" - already obsolete - and they had major > issues trying to copy it to a different platform... > > On Friday 11 December 2009 08:55:36 Ramon Casha wrote: > > Some people still call them "talkies" :) > > > > Actually as digital media improve, fewer "films" will actually involve > > actual film. The most advanced imax projectors can take a hard disk > instead > > of film. Considering that the choice is between one hard disk and a stack > > of large, heavy film reels, it's not hard to see why. > > > > Ramon Casha > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >
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