[game_preservation] iPhone Game Preservation

[Devin Monnens]

That wouldn't even be counting the storage costs of the film itself. Just
because it's been digitized doesn't mean you chuck out the originals. Those
have to be kept in a climate-controlled facility, and that's no mean task.

-Devin

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Henry Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu> wrote:


>  Andrew, regarding ...

>

> Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>

> Unlike film, which has no issues once permission is granted to get from

> film to digital ...

>

> I wish that were true.  Transfer from film to digital is incredibly

> expensive right now, and there are some major issues, primarily technical

> and financial.   Handling film, esp. nitrate film, is non-trivial.  Storage

> costs, another issue, as current digital film technologies result in

> absolutely massive files.   I believe one of the NDIIPP projects is working

> in in this area.  At Stanford, we had to turn down a collection last year,

> because digitization costs were estimated at around $15 million.

>

> Henry

>

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