The Afterlife Is Expensive for Digital Movies

Re:The Afterlife Is Expensive for Digital Movies by ks on Sunday December 23, 2007 @05:39PM (#92273)

Storage is just a small part of the problem. Formats change all the time, and who knows if it's readable in 50 years?

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Re:The Afterlife Is Expensive for Digital Movies by lsb on Sunday December 23, 2007 @05:51PM (#92274)

then it makes sense to store, along with the data, two codecs that will make a array of bitmaps and an uncompressed raw audio file. (project gutenberg, for example, always has a plain text version whenever there's a more elaborate format.)

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Re:The Afterlife Is Expensive for Digital Movies by downer on Sunday December 23, 2007 @08:21PM (#92303)

That's with historical proprietary formats.

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