Restoring the old movies

Here an interesting article from the BBC news website on film restoration. It appears the old films are starting to deteriorate as the physical media ages. The answer? Digitise the movies and while you are at it, why not fix the colour and clean up the image?

I was intrigued by the amount of data generated by some of the film scanning - upto to 12TB per film when scanned at the higher resolution (with around 6,000 lines per frame). The article points out that this isn't a problem for the studio since they have a Petabyte of disk storage. But this is only 1,024TB. By my calculations that is enough for just over 80 films. Mmmm...sounds like it might be a good time to be in the storage business.