Timeline for How much could a time traveler earn from selling 2016 tech having traveled back to 2000?
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| Oct 5, 2016 at 20:56 | comment | added | Lee Saxon | Side note for @Durakken: In the early digital days an alarming number of films were shot (or scanned, if shot on film) or at least edited at 1080p/2K and are not going to age well. But yes, most are shot at 4K now (which has similar resolution to 35mm film). 8K cameras and editing hardware to work with their footage only barely exist right now, but yes that's where it's going. | |
| Oct 3, 2016 at 15:42 | comment | added | Jason K | @Roux I can only imagine how flummoxed Chris Pratt would be (if one of the films was Jurassic World as mentioned in another post) at the INCREDIBLY CHEAP set of his Jurassic World versus the film that was released. Paramount would shoot their version on a shoestring budget and release the expensive version :) | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 23:03 | comment | added | Xalorous | The items are definitely more trouble than they're worth. You might get small bills to pass, but anything that's a redesigned note is trash, as currency. Credit cards are basically counterfeit, same with the license. The movies are dangerous. They're actually really good proof that you came from the future, if you could get them out of the phone. You might have to wait for Bluetooth or mini USB to manage that though. | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 22:59 | comment | added | Xalorous | @SGR you have to describe how they work, and it's best to have technical drawings. You're right though, having the item only it would be difficult to patent it. *especially since it has a brand name on it, and the inside is full of items with patent numbers on them. | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 13:10 | comment | added | Durakken | Oh yeah, movies use like 4k or 8k don't they? But you'd still be able to make more money than that if you could push you're from the future because the fact that those stars are relevant 16 years later would be bankable information. | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 13:02 | comment | added | user8808 | The movies on the phone would have far worse quality than the studios need; they will still have to shoot the films. You can maybe get a few hundred bucks for providing them the results of casting and the used scenes, but that's it. | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 10:59 | comment | added | SGR | The only problem with patents, to my understanding, is that you need to be able to demonstrate how the technology works. Unless Joe is skilled in electronics he'd have a very hard time doing so. | |
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| Sep 30, 2016 at 9:15 | history | answered | Durakken | CC BY-SA 3.0 |