lordjedi said:
zombie84 said:
Um, I'm pretty sure you can't store a terabyte of information on an optical disk.

Yet. I have no doubt we'll see something that can (consumer ready even) in my lifetime.

I'd be surprised if we didn't see this in the next six or seven years the way things are moving now.

As far as the original question though, no you could never 100%, let alone better, replicate film through electronic means, no matter if its analog or digital. Its simply not possible; the process of converting it into electronic signals means you can never get it in a pure form. You could probably get it to the point where the difference is invisible, however, though I'm sure some might argue that the "inperceptible" difference is where the difference actually is. In terms of analog, there's not sufficient technological development to even get us to this point, however, since everyone has gone digital for the last decade and a half. If you're going to convert film into an electronic replication, it really doesn't matter if its analog or digital, whats lost is lost already so you might as well stick with the technologically superior digital realm.