I always hear people/actors/directors say, this tape or film is x meters long, it is this size, etc. do they really still use physical film? If so why aren’t they using terabytes of storage in a way more compact form?

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    digital recordings are actually pretty heavily compressed and once you lose that data, it can’t be recovered. the information stored on the film is actually much, much more densely encoded even if it’s analog.

    This is why you sometimes see HD/4K rereleases of very old movies that were recorded on film. It’s not hard to get more resolution as long as they still have the original film reels.