30 Aug
2011
30 Aug
'11
6:26 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Toby Thain" <toby at telegraphics.com.au>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: scarcity of digital preservation efforts - was Re: eBay...
Yikes!
Just curious: are the tape and wire formats for DV
video openly
documented? What about HD and professional/film formats? What if
somebody asked you to decode 100TB of video from 2011 one day...
--T
>
> -Dave
>
I am sure some of the very early film footage captured and edited on various
proprietary computer hardware will be hard to work with (early 68K AVIDs for
one that needed specific hardware for compression/decompression). Video
compression has changed quite a bit over the last 20+ years I would think.