[game_preservation] iPhone Game Preservation

[Andrew Armstrong]

Not cheap, but they do have a process! Which can only get cheaper to do 
(and considering the budgets of films compared to games, I am glad 
they're investing some money to start this). The actual size is going to 
be ridiculous, I know that much just from digitising 1080p material, to 
gigabytes per tape :)

Unlike games, where the best practice to archive something is, under the 
DMCA, to "Get a few copies of the original media and hope they don't go 
wrong", which isn't as expensive but certainly needs work :) Without any 
legal backup, the fact it's totally illegal to break copy protections 
and make a copy of media is a huge barrier.

Films also have the future advantage of going all-digital, which will 
cut the preservation costs there down significantly.

I think future proofing this somehow is necessary (like how film 
actually has, even if it is expensive), and in the US, for all intents 
and purposes, there is either the need to get the makers involved 
directly or a change in the law, both seem a bit far off :(

Andrew

Devin Monnens wrote:

> 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 

> <mailto: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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