[game_preservation] Blog about Video Capture project
Henry Lowood
lowood at stanford.edu
Wed Sep 11 12:43:17 EDT 2013
Andreas,
Ok, let me check if we have any data that we are ready to share.
Henry
On 9/11/2013 12:35 AM, Andreas Lange wrote:
> Dear JP and Henry,
> thanks for your feedback. I haven't expected numbers now, but would be
> still interested in the kind of media, which you have choosen to test
> and record. Have you e.g. included magnetic media?
>
> Andreas
>
> Am 10.09.2013 20:13, schrieb 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
>>> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 10:58 AM
>>> To: game_preservation at igda.org
>>> 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
>>>
>>> Andreas Lange
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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.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> JP
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jon-Paul C. Dyson, PhD
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>>>>
>>>>
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