Anything Goes : Great article about how digital has replaced film by Susan Sayler
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There is a great new documentary out (i think Keanu Reeves did it), called "side by side" exploring this transition in detail and talking to the people in the industry.
I read the article in the NY Times but haven't seen it yet. Makes you think about the total immesion 3D future of movies!
Side By Side was shown at the Sydney Film Festival in June. Great doco - thoroughly recommend it! http://sidebysidethemovie.com/
Yea, Side by Side is the best source for this comparison. It's truly incredible that you can still project film shot 100 years ago, but VHS is basically worthless.
VHS is basically only a storage and distro format, film is a shooting material. big difference. also beta is still in use by professionals and the only reason VHS has won over v2000 and beta was the porn industry - or rather because sony did not allow the porn industry to use their betamax format for their smut. But since smut is on all our minds, VHS sold. There are many recording and storage formated gone, even if some of them were actually really good and still would be today. And some are still in use, even if they are obsolete. Vinyl is a good example, where style still trumps quality, as the organic sound of the vinyl is part of the experience. The current trend obviously goes into displaced and cloud storage for all of us. But I guess some revolution is just waiting around the corner...
You're right about VHS and maybe that wasn't the best example, but my point is that tech is always changing in the "video" space and in a lot of cases the tech becomes more or less obsolete in a relatively short number of years. For instance, I never even see cameras or tape stock I used to shoot on 10 years ago. But film from 100 years ago can still be viewed using basically the same tech as it was then (a projector), which is awesome.
Futurists see movies giving way to total immersion experience where the viewer no longer sits passively watching the action; they will smell, taste, and touch it as well as live it visually in 3 dimensions and eventually interact with the movie and determine its outcome. And not just for entertainment, this will be how we go to school, train for work, get counseling, and probably how courts will conduct hearings. I wish I could live 100 more years just to see it.