Kodak announces ‘asset protection’ cinema film, thumbs nose at your digital movie collection

Kodaks announces asset protection cinema film, thumbs nose at your digital movie collection

Kodak may not be beloved by digital filmmakers, but it’s not fallen out of love with the talkies. It’s new “asset protection” cinema film is designed to save motion pictures from being lost if your digital-storage-medium-of-choice is rendered obsolete. It’s designed for long-term archive storage, with your Hollywood blockbuster stored in a “human-readable” format that’ll remain usable “well into the future.” As such, the reels are loaded with dyes that will reportedly remain stable for “decades,” but the company thinks will remain viable for over a century — in stark contrast with the short life of your average hard-drive. It’ll add a monochrome offering to the range later in the year, but if you want the color version now, your people will have to talk to Kodak’s people, Mr. Producer.

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Dropbox Pro accounts get double the storage for the same price, 500GB option thrown in for kicks

Dropbox Pro accounts get doubled for the same price
Are you a digital packrat, uploading anything and everything you can possibly think of to your Dropbox Pro account? Happy days are here again, friends: the storage service has upgraded its Pro accounts, doubling its 50GB and 100GB plans for the same cost (the Pro 100 is $10 per month or $100 per year, and the Pro 200 is $20 per month or $200 per year) while adding a higher-tiered 500GB option. We’re still waiting to hear exactly how much the top-end storage option will cost, but Dropbox expects to publish its new pricing plans this evening.

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Dropbox Pro accounts get double the storage for the same price, 500GB option thrown in for kicks originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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