I'm not sure that CD ROM is a good means of storing old films and videos for archival purposes, because information retrieval is relatively slow and may inhibit both full frame and full motion video playback. VideoDisks play back full frame and full motion video quite well and also facilitate interactive playback, but it it difficult, if not impossible to get an entire movie on a single disk. They are also expensive to make. I think that eventually computer DAT (digital audiotape) backup for storage and hard drive access on a 9 GB hard drive for easy and quick access at full frame and full motion video will be the way to go. Right now the MAC can only access about 2GB of storage at a time (one partition) for nonlinear editing units, using inexpensive software, such as Adobe Premiere, but more expensive professional software and hardware editing systems, such as AVID, can provide access to an entire film on a large hard drive. It also takes considerable RAM (Random Access Memory), at least 32 MB, to make good use of nonlinear video editing and capturing software, such as Adobe Premiere with Radius VideoVision Studio. Gorham Kindem [log in to unmask]