red5-626 said:

poita said:

Part of the problem here is that a raw scan of a single film is over 20TB, i.e. over $700 worth of HDDs. Not easy to share or distribute.

As for entitlement, nobody *has* to share anything, especially something they may have sunk thousands of hours and thousands of dollars into, but I am glad when people do :)

OK
I had a thought.
What if you scaled down the frames so you
could have like 1 TB per real.

I would think that would still be much better than 1080p
Maybe 2 ½ K?
But small enough that you could share it.

I'm not sure many people would want much larger than 1080P anyway, as few have displays capable of higher resolution in their loungerooms.

If you go with .exr as a format, then in 1080P each reel is only about 600GB in 16bpp with an alpha channel. Still hefty, but far easier to manage.

As an archival thing, then 4K is great, but as a delivery system, it is overkill for today's audiences.