RSSHP Brings British Film Archive Online
By the Betanews Staff | Published February 22, 2007, 12:27 PM
Through a two-year partnership with the British Film Institute, HP will assist the organization in creating a digital archive of more than 300 films and television shows. When it opens in March, the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank will have a catalog of films and videos spanning more than a century, it said. Another reason for the move is to digitize content to ensure it is preserved.
About 30 titles per month would be added to the digital archive, officals say. However, the groups will likely only put a small dent into the center's vast library, which includes some 230,000 films and 675,000 television programs - the biggest in the world.
I hope the British Film Institute and HP are using an Open File Format standard for these videos rather than a proprietary 'secret' codec!
With memories still fresh of Microsoft's move to virtually drop the audio PlaysForSure format after less than three years of usage, the message should be loud and clear that closed proprietary file formats are not an acceptable solution for storage longevity.
frank daley
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