Your Problem

Despite your best climate controlled efforts, your priceless media library is deteriorating, whether it’s film, video tape or photography.  From fading color, to binder breakdown the results are predictable. Of the 21,000 feature films made in America before 1950, a little over half survive.

Today’s images become tomorrow’s history. Preserving a film or video tape library requires constant attention. While paper may last hundreds of years, a video tape format’s typical lifespan is ten. Step into a vault of acetate safety film. The distinctive vinegar odor is a sign of decay.

As a video format ages, deck replacement parts become scarce.  It becomes harder to find people with the expertise to maintain machines or even run them. How many of today’s TV technicians have ever threaded a reel to reel video tape machine? Why risk an irreplaceable, historic tape in inexperienced hands? If you tried to keep pace by dubbing to a format like Betacam, the transfer showed generation loss. Ultimately, all tape formats go extinct. When is the last time you could buy a new Sony BVW 75 Betacam deck? 

It is time is to go digital.