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

[Jay Caines-Gooby]

On 12/13/06, Tom Coady <tom.coady at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

Dave,

I'd be interested to hear the results on this: my mum has a stack of
cine films that I'd like to get digitised.

> 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?

Tom,

All hail Dreamhost whose "Files Forever" product (for the moment, you
must be an existing Dreamhost customer) https://files.dreamhost.com/
is *very* competitive at $2.50/GB - that's a one-off cost per GB, with
no recurring fees...

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