Hi Justin:
I was just reading about Digital Cinema in relation to learning more
about Home Threater,
http://www.prc68.com/I/HomeTheater.shtml
There are now thousands of movie theaters (most are the small multi
screen type) that use digital projection instead of 35 mm film. There
are many benefits such as huge savings related to the cost of a 35mm
film vs. a 350 GB hard drive but also the ability to release a new film
in theaters without spending 150 million on the first round of prints.
BUT, the key problem is archival quality (100 year) copy of the film
which is easy to do in 35 mm and extremely difficult to do with digital
media.
PS the company referenced in my prior email does more than just hard
drives, i.e. floppy, tape, digital camera media, etc.
Have Fun,
Brooke Clarke
http://www.PRC68.com
Justin Pinnix wrote:
David,
You probably know this already, but you can walk into any electronics store
and buy a 16GB USB thumb drive for 20 dollars that will hold the equivalent
of 136 LS-120 floppies. You might be better served by moving your
collection to a more modern media.
Remember that magnetic media (disks, tapes) have a limited shelf life. In
particular, I've had a lot of problem with floppies written with one drive
not being readable on another.
Thanks,
-JP
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:42 AM, David C. Partridge<
david.partri...@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
Internal 3.5" LS-120 Superdisk floppy drive (ideally with black front, but
...). I'm after one in the standard 3.5" floppy drive size, not laptop.
The one in my main system just died :-(. I have a lot of stuff on LS-120
disks, and while I can read them on a system in another room and network
the
files it is rather a PITA (plus it is probably only a matter of time until
that one dies too).
I will remove the dead one and look for any obvious problems, but I'm not
optimistic.
I am in the UK not the USA by the way.
Please respond off-list.
Dave
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