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As with audio, to constantly migrate to biggest, latest, and best is going to be the only solution for long-term preservation. I've already started to digitize from VHS, S-VHS, Hi8, Digital8, Digibeta to DVD and ONWARD!!! Rod Stephens Family Theater Productions steven c wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Gregory Lukow" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 4:18 PM >Subject: [ARSCLIST] Library of Congress/NAVCC digital preservation >infrastructure > > > > >> A program to digitally preserve selected film collections (primarily 16mm >> >> >B&W material, kinescopes, etc.) will follow within a few years. > > >The inherent problem with computerizing stuff on this sort of >a long-term schedule is that by the time the digitization is >completed, it is possible that the format will be so obsolete >as to make it essentially inaccessible! > >I have megabytes of dBASE files (which are at least importable >into most database applications)...as well as the original files >I created for my Dating Guide...on 5.25" floppies in a format so >obsolete no 21st century program can comprehend them! > >Steven C. Barr > > >