Re: Warning of major NHS IT overspend

[Ian G Batten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

On Tue, 02 Nov 2004, Adrian Midgley wrote:

> It is unlikely that a new X-ray department would be built in the UK that was 
> not a direct digital one - Picture Archiving - PAC systems are popular for 
> several reasons, but one that may not be entirely appreciated is that if you 
> consider the bits around a film or several films, like somewhere to walk to 

More to the point, in less than a generation it's likely that
specialised film emulsions will be ferociously expensive, because they
will no longer have the volume market to carry their fixed costs.
Non-specialised photographers will have abandoned film within a few
years, high-volume professional users already have, a lot of `film'
production work is now done on progressive scan DV and that's likely to
displace film within a decade.  Silver Halide 2010 == Vinyl 2000: a tiny
minority can attempt to hold back the tide, but the market doesn't care.

ian