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Was Ed Reardon about?
Ned | 16.09.19 - 7:02 a.m. | #
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I've heard that a major broadcaster have more archive footage on an obsolete tape format than can be played back on the average working life of all the remaining players for that format. They want to transfer it all, but are having to prioritise. Hopefully the BFI don't have similar dilemmas!
martin | 16.09.19 - 7:10 a.m. | #
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what? no mention of ed reardon?
bert | 16.09.19 - 7:37 a.m. | #
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Turning a film into a series of ones and zeroes does not mean it's storage life increases. If anything, its storage life can decrease. Not because the media has degraded, but rather because the software to understand the format has been lost.
Digital file formats are hideously complicated and without the documentation & software to decode it, it's just useless ones & zeros.
The digital formats, being extremely complex, are more susceptible to becoming unreadable due to minor corruption of the data.
dg quotes: "For long term preservation it is essential to regularly refresh data by moving it to later storage systems as they emerge and are established." The BFI are onto it.
Jon Jones | 16.09.19 - 8:01 a.m. | #
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Amazing and not-so amazing facts about Berko well covered, though J.M. Barrie (not J.J.) wrote Peter Pan.
dg writes: Fixed, thanks.
If you visit again in a year's time, the tour of Ashlyns School (the former Foundling Hospital), led by former scholars, is highly recommended.
Paul | 16.09.19 - 8:49 a.m. | #
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I'm waiting for the BFI to save the famous Jack Payne's Band film "Say it with Music" which hasn't been seen since 1932..
Alex McKenna | 16.09.19 - 9:00 a.m. | #
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A key difference between digital film archives and physical ones is cost of copying. Once digitised, it can be stored in multiple locations, and the risk of loss by physical means - vandalism, meteors etc - becomes negligible.
Malcolm | 16.09.19 - 9:33 a.m. | #
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Thank you for the link to the BFI website with its collection of free to watch film clips. There's a lot of excellent historical footage on there so I've bookmarked it for future visits.
milliem | 16.09.19 - 10:25 a.m. | #
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Maybe Berkhamstead's good accessibility and proximity to Croxley / Watford has pushed the place down your list of preference.
Patrickov | 16.09.19 - 3:08 p.m. | #
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There are lots of old buildings between High Street and station on the less direct route... it's well worth a second visit.
GeoffL | 16.09.19 - 5:42 p.m. | #
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I did also walk the Berkhamsted Heritage Trail, one of several comprehensively documented on the town council's excellent website.
But I don't blog about everything I do.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 16.09.19 - 5:48 p.m. | #
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My friend does restoration and archive film and video professionally.
He points out something counterintuitive. With each generation of digital tape the capacity goes up. Climate controlled storage is expensive. So naturally with each upgrade they put more episodes of shows onto a single tape to save space.
Well, now imagine what happens when the tape is damaged, as must happen sometimes. Instead of losing one episode it's 2, 4, 8, 16.
Keep two tapes you say? Well, they'd like to. But that costs money too.
It's a true dilemma.
Andrew Thompson | 17.09.19 - 3:27 a.m. | #
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They do indeed keep multiple copies of everything, across multiple tapes. The cost of storage is that low, and the importance of keeping films safe is that high.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 17.09.19 - 7:40 a.m. | #
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