Industry pros sweat the possibility that many digital files will eventually become unusable — an archival tragedy reminiscent of the celluloid era.
  • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
    46·
    8 months ago

    Huh, I assumed they were spending the money to archive digital content with redundancy just like they did celluloid.

    • echo64@lemmy.worldEnglish
      45·
      8 months ago

      They aren’t spending the money to preserve film either. The best case is storing the film in salt mines, and that only slows the degradation. Film isn’t being digitally scanned unless there’s a uhd release to profit from it, and every week that it isn’t scanned, it degrades a little more