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PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Could be low quality original archives that were then digitized at like 480p, depending on when they made the archive.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Amazon published an article about how they made a cloud backup of BBC archives, UK tv channel. The article says that 100 years of BBC content amounted to 25 petabytes of storage (~25000 TB). I would think that PBS archives would need a similar amount of storage.

    https://archive.is/suZz6

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago*

    the bbc archive is across multiple channels that almost exclusively produce original programming

    from what i understand, 9 pbs is a local news channel that mostly airs syndicated shows

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