Posted by Martin Heffels on 04/22/06 18:06

On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 14:39:51 GMT, "David McCall" <david.mccall@comcast.net>
wrote:

>Yes, I know there is a software codec for the Matrox MJPEG
>that we use on the Digisuite, but I don't trust Matrox to keep
>it up to date and available.

That is all our concern that development might get stuck. Could happen for
instance if Windows Vista gets introduced.

>I know I'm not likely to hire someone
>to reverse engineer the codec if I loose it. Nothing I have ever
>done is of enough value to justify the expense. Perhaps not the
>best of examples, but not a total looser either :-)

LOL.

>> So, instead of printing all the 1's and 0's to paper, it's better to
>> archive on film.
>>
>1s and 0s on paper might be good if you cared enough to encode
>it that way, but I won't. In fact, I won't even bother with doing it to
>film.
>Once they become unreadable, that will probably be the end of it.

Archiving on film was just an extreme example. Film has been around for
more than 100 years, and can still be viewed with very simple equipment.
That should be one more reason to shoot everything on film, instead of a
digital format which will disappear in 10 years. I can hear IMX nibbling at
the Digibeta market-share, and the other one mentioned that Sony steers us
towards consumer DVD-camcorders, kicking out mini-DV. And that keeps going
on and on.

cheers

-martin-
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Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

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