RE: DVDs<br><br>You have to remember that DVDs aren't archival quality ot begin with. Unless, of course, that was the only copy of the video (or there's something notable about the menu), you ultimately want something with higher quality. I don't think even Blu-Ray is archival quality for video.<br>
<br>RE: Film size<br><br>I am running into the same problem with my masters for Contra versus Contra and Counting Bees #2. I honestly don't know if I still have the original files, but I know I have some of them on an external hard drive. It's simply too big to fit on DVDs economically and it takes up too much of a chunk of a hard drive to make the drive useful for anything else. If somebody wants to talk about selling art, I would say selling the disk drive with the master production files would be the equivalent of digital art simply because it's too expensive to copy.<br>
<br>Of course, this raises questions about what should be preserved. Arguably, we can look at either the piece as an entire work of art or as a system of parts which can be dissembled and used for other purposes, like taking pieces from a Risk game to make your own prototypes. Essentially, there are hacking groups who will take files from new 3D games and dump those into something like Gary's Mod for Half-Life 2. This means fans and hobbyists can do a lot of neat things with official production models stored within the games. There is also of course the game music group as well, who extract audio and video files to listen to those independently. This creates a separate set of assets.<br>
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Sure, there's the question of whether most of these iPhone games are worth preserving in the first place.<br>
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Fun fact: According to my research, there are currently over 13,000 titles in the App Store marked "Game". It would cost over US$17,600 to purchase all the ones that aren't free.<br>
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Don't know if anyone cares. :)<div><div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>A drop in the bucket ;-) Seriously, once you have numbers, you can get funding. That's what Fiona Cherbak tells me. Add the iPhone operating systems to that as well. I'm sure you could fit every single app on a few DVDs.<br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Devin Monnens<br><a href="http://www.deserthat.com">www.deserthat.com</a><br><br>The sleep of Reason produces monsters.<br>