Adam_S
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I think the cost issue was referring to the cost of data storage if they went out of house. by doing their scanning at 8k in house they can keep it affordable. Most places charge by the Gigabyte or Terrabye, I think, and scanning at 8k is a frame is a lot of data (iirc a 4k frame is 55MB give or take, so 8k would be 220MB/frame), so 165 min x 60 sec x 24 frames x 55MB is the minimum data or about 5 TB for a 4k scan (or 20TB for an 8k scan) for a single movie. If a place is charging you 500$/week for every 4TB of storage, that means it could quickly become $2500/week to store an 8k scan. you can see why most movies are scanned at 2k, which if it were Zhivago would be about 1.25TB for the entire movie. By doing it in house, WB can just buy $5000 worth of Hard Drives to add to their server farm for Zhivago's 8k scan and call it a day.