Monday, February 27, 2006

U.S. National Archives and Google to digitize historical films

Historical Films Set to Air Online

"The National Archives and Google have announced that they will work together to digitize historically important films from the archive's vaults. The videos -- which include newsreels from World War II and documentaries produced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- will soon be available at no cost to scholars and students."

read original blog post here:
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=1045

Sweet huh? Now, we can download DVD qualiy files to burn our own DVD-R's or will we be stuck simply watching low quality google video format on our desktops? If we want high quality reproductions, will be be able to get the for free or will we still have to pay for the discs? Whatever the case may br it is a step forward.

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