Japan’s Crises, and its ramifications on digital preservation
The earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis in Japan may have far-reaching cultural and history-recording effects worldwide… possibly exacerbating a digital dark age.
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Tag: Television
YouTube as a de facto cultural archive for past videos
YouTube is definitely the wild-west for video content, and if you look hard enough, you’ll find a lot of vintage video content. Quite a few of it is uploaded by people whose rights to publish the stuff is questionable, but while it’s there and before it gets taken down, it’s pretty fascinating to come across old […]
Let them eat static: Nationwide sign-off of Analog TV signals
After several delays, fits and starts, the US has finally left the age of analog TV behind today. One by one, stations across the nation shut down their analog transmitters and have resumed broadcasting in DTV only. this was supposed to happen much sooner in the year, but the transtition was stalled several times, upon […]
An impending quad tape dilemna?
An interesting post and ensuing discussion this weekend occurred on the Association of Moving Image Archivists listserv. Jim Wheeler reports on what could be an ominous sign for Quadruplex and 1-inch Video tape archives around the world. Video Magnetics, Inc., one of the last vendors that services the Quad and 1-inch tape machines, appears to be hitting […]