Today's New York Times has an article on digital archiving.
"The afterlife is expensive for digital movies".
They say that the motion picture industry estimates that it costs about 10 times as much per year to archive digital movies as film and that 1/2 of all digital files will be unreadable if left untouched for 15 years.
Before everyone jumps on me, I should admit that I take everything the New York Times prints with a grain of salt.
However, a multi billion dollar industry is making very expensive decisions based on the study this article quotes, so there may be some truth in it somewhere.
Neal
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