4/20/01
From Seamus Ross, "Changing Trains at Wigan: Digital Preservation and the
Future of Scholarship", p. 28, n. 16, quoting another source: "[T]o
store the digital version of Star Wars Episode I required nineteen 18 GB hard
drives and Toy Story covered more than 300GB of
storage...."
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Edwin Southern,
Ph.D (esouthern@ncsl.dcr.state.nc.us)
Head, State and University
Records Unit
Department of Cultural
Resources
Division of Archives and
History
Archives and Records
Section
Government Records
Branch
4615
Mail Service Center
Raleigh,
NC 27699-4615
Phone 919/733-3540
Fax 919/715-3627
Opinions
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not represent the policy of my
agency.
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[snip]
Does anyone know how much space an
uncompressed hour of US videotape requires? How much a similar
length of uncompressed 35mm color film? How long does a long but not
ridiculously long film actually run? It seems to me we should now be
thinking from the top down and establish a measure to guide future
developments, this process or the next. A film or video
equivalent to the Beethoven 9th, used during the design of the CD,
should be established before things become frozen.
Steven Smolian
301-694-5134
Smolian Sound Studios
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