Re: [Avid-L2] Re: BBC axes £98m Digital Media "tapeless" Initiative

Terry, I knew you'd like that line. :-)

Michael, good point. Same sort of thing happened out here when a network affiliate tried to go tapeless/IP a few years ahead of the curve.

Others?

Jim


On May 24, 2013, at 2:19 PM, Michael Sanders wrote:

> They started 5 years to early... that was the problem.
>
> Michael J Sanders:
> London Based DP/Cameraman

On May 24, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Terence Curren wrote:

> "when BBC News staff were unable to access archive footage of the late prime minister via computers in New Broadcasting House in central London were forced to ferry tapes from the corporation's archive storage facility in Perivale, north-west London, in taxis or on the tube."
>
> And tape saves the day again...
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Jim Feeley <jfeeley@...> wrote:
> >
> > Yow! Anyone know more (and allowed to talk about it)?
> >
> > =====
> > BBC axes £98m technology project to avoid 'throwing good money after bad'
> > Independent investigation launched after Digital Media Initiative, which aimed to digitise archive, results in catalogue of errors
> >
> > The BBC has admitted that it has wasted almost £100m on a technology project that was designed to make the corporation "tapeless", and has closed it to stop it "throwing good money after bad".
> >
> > The BBC has spent £98.4m on the controversial Digital Media Initiative – which was designed to do away with video tapes and create a kind of internal YouTube of BBC archive content that staff can access, upload, edit and then air from their computers – the equivalent of almost 660,000 licence fees.
> > =====
> > Rest of the Guardian's story:
> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/may/24/bbc-technology-project-digital-media-initiative
> >
> >
> > Jim Feeley
> > jfeeley@...



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