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Re: DVD's successor



Because for a lot of things, (increasingly more) that's not enough space -
with holographic data storage, we're talking terabytes in the same amount
of space as CD roms (that's what they're going for, I believe).

Ellee Figi
Graduate Student
University of Maryland

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Pope, Barbara wrote:

> Why not use zip disks for this purpose? They cost a little more, but the
> ones I have store 100 MB a piece.
>
> Barbara M. Pope, M.L.S.
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> Subject: Re: DVD's successor
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>
> 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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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Archives & Archivists [mailto:ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU]On Behalf
> Of Steven Smolian
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 12:42 PM
> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Fw: DVD's successor
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>
>
> Subject: DVD's successor
>
> [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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> [snip]
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