Linda Tadic

we almost had a horror story.

It was for a television series and an important one.

And the first season of it, they couldn't find it.

And so thank goodness again, they had a second copy that was okay.

And we can restore the data off because a lot of this in working with people who have had data for a while,

It's on older storage media.

It's on older drives like firewire drives.

You don't have cables anymore.

We have to become a museum with hardware.

They're on old LTO tape written in a backup system, which is proprietary.

So we have to have Windows XP machines running, Windows 95 machines running, so that we can use some of that older backup software, which is obsolete.

That gets to the obsolescence factor to get that data off.

You know, people reminisce about the old days where you had film, you could just put it, you know, the can on a shelf and everything, and that's called store and ignore.

And with digital content, you can't do that.

You have to be really aware of it.

So that's it.

And so you have the whole file format thing.

I mean, thinking about the future storage, even if you have something that can last a thousand years or more,

The data on it is obsolete.

You make a file today, okay, cool.