In Trevor Owen’s excellent blog post ‘What Do you Mean by Archive? Genres of Usage for Digital Preservers’, he outlines the different ways ‘archive’ is used to describe data sets and information management practices in contemporary society. While the article shows it is important to distinguish between tape archives, archives as records management, personal papers… Continue reading Capitalising on the archival market: SONY’s 185 TB tape cartridge
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Sony V60H half inch reel to reel video archive baked and digitised
We’ve recently had an interesting archive of poorly stored and initially unplayable half inch, EIAJ, black and white video reels dating from the late 1970s and early 1980s. This format was commonly used in education and in industry and was much cheaper than the U-matic and one inch formats. We usually see Scotch and Sony… Continue reading Sony V60H half inch reel to reel video archive baked and digitised