The Afterlife Is Expensive for Digital Movies

December 25, 2007 | Source: New York Times

Storing digital data for a movie produced using all-electronic processes costs $208,569 a year, vs. the $486 it costs for film, audio recordings, on-set photographs and annotated scripts, according to a study of digital archivng by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

In addition, digital media have a limited life and formats are rapidly becoming obsolete.