[game_preservation] Blog about Video Capture project

[Henry Lowood]

JP,
We are still in the middle of our project.  We do have some numbers, but 
not a complete set yet.
Henry

On 9/10/2013 9:57 AM, Dyson, Jon-Paul wrote:

> Andreas,

>

> The project is still in process so I'm not in a position to share final numbers or specific breakdowns by system/material type but so far of the more than 7800 pre-2005 games we've tested there has been an initial failure rate of around 2.75%. That reflects some degree of remediation (e.g. cleaning and retesting) but not extensive work on games to see if we can make them work.

>

> Henry might have some numbers to share from his new imaging project. Henry do you have numbers?

>

> JP

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: game_preservation-bounces at igda.org [mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Lange

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> Subject: Re: [game_preservation] Blog about Video Capture project

>

> Hi JP,

> this is great news. Congratulations to that important project! Which systems/ media will you use? Specially I am interested in the percentage of the not working games, which are stored on magnetic media...

>

> Andreas

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> Am 09.09.2013 15:40, schrieb Dyson, Jon-Paul:

>> The Institute of Museum and Library Services recently posted a brief blog I wrote about our IMLS-funded project to capture video of game play. Here’s the link in case people are interested: http://blog.imls.gov/?p=4091.

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>> Best,

>> JP

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