Originally posted by: Marvolo
My bad I didn't know that the film was scaled that high. Personally I don't care what kind of problems the PT has. However, it is a shame that the PT was filmed digitally, because it will take a whole lot longer for it rot to nothingness.

Not necessarily:

"Lucas an advocate for digital projection and wants to phase out motion picture film. I hope he has preserved the film elements because digital is not archival. It's a very unstable format and it's easy to erase or degrade digital data.
Since there's no 'hard copy' like film, there's no way to restore missing computer information. It just vanishes." Richard W. Haines

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