Archiving data from old storage media can be a highly complex process. It can be as simple as putting a disk in an old drive and reading out the contents. These days, though, the state of the art is ...
The Internet Archive has begun the long, grueling process of uploading to the Internet 40,000 tapes of television that a woman named Marion Stokes recorded in her home. When Trevor von Stein first ...
In a storage unit somewhere in Philadelphia, 140,000 VHS tapes sit packed into four shipping containers. Most are hand-labeled with a date between 1977 and 2012, and if you pop one into a VCR you ...
What motivated Marion Stokes to create the Marion Stokes Archive starting in 1979? Imagine a home stacked with thousands of VHS tapes, each one capturing hours of television broadcasts. This was the ...
The UK's police service is looking to purchase technology and services under a £120 million ($163.3m) effort to digitize its VHS archive. As reported by the Register, non-profit Bluelight Commercial, ...