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RE: [OM] Re: Dipping our Toe Into Digital (LONG)

Subject: RE: [OM] Re: Dipping our Toe Into Digital (LONG)
From: "Wayne Harridge" <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 18:47:29 +1100
> 
> The big difference from a business perspective is that the 
> two hours of projection by film is several large, heavy, 
> costly, and wear-prone reels of celluloid, while the digital 
> projection can be transported on a small stack of DVD-like 
> disks or a few hard drives... and the digital images will 
> never wear out even if projected hundreds or thousands of 
> time. Every projection will look exactly like the first... 
> even if no one could stand to sit through the movie that many 
> times. <g>

The failure mode for digital media is usually catastrophic failure,
rather than analogue gradual degradation.

...Wayne




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