Preserving Video: Different Solutions for a Growing Problem
The drumbeat continues to sound for the preservation of obsolete and endangered moving image formats. As older tape formats become unplayable, either through decay or lack of equipment to play them back, the urgency grows to find ways to preserve their content using modern digital formats. But what digital format should be used to preserve this content in the digital space, and help ensure that we aren’t finding ourselves in the same obsolescence predicament right away?