[BNM] [OT] 2007 Project: Dead Media Archival

[Tom Coady]

On 12/13/06, Dave Phelan <dave.phelan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2) converting cine( poss super8 or some such) to digital
> + any recommendation of a company to do it? How much?
> (I assume it's too much hassle to DIY)


Some crawley  firm was mentioned here recently

3) conerting VHS to digital
> + likewise, assuming it's too much hassle to DIY, andy recommendations


If you have a tivo and if you have upgraded to ethernet and use tivotool to
spool out shows in mp4 (or maybe get a bigger HD) this must be one of the
easiest ways.

4) scanning in prints (or poss negatives)
> + Is it cost-effective to get a company to do it? Cost?


Sheet feed scanners seem to be coming down to the £300 level now and tend to
come with sw to org stuff into pdfs. Doubt you could beat the commercial
services, but if you can let me know as I have similar ambitions to go
binary.

Once that's all done. I just need to get the off-site backup regime in
> place, and we're set for the next year or two :-)


Talking of which I just did a superficial survey of some you may like to
share:

Picassa
6.25GB ($25 per year)
25GB ($100 per year)
100GB ($300 per year)
250GB ($500 per year)

 Amazon S3:
$0.15 per GB-Month of storage used.
$0.20 per GB of data transferred.- about $2/Gb if your backups are
incremental

But apparently cheapest is http://www.flickr.com/upgrade/ - photies only
mind but I guess you could always render the ascii in bitmaps or paste it in
as a comment?