FACT 
It is a certainty that most video assets will be lost, if they remain on videotape.

TV PRODUCERS – CORPORATIONS – ARCHIVES - MUSEUMS
GOVERNMENTS – UNIVERSITIES - TRAINING SCHOOLS - HOSPITALS

You have invested great resources in the production of commercials, training videos and TV programs over the years. Your legacy is worth saving.

Or, you are a parent who recorded family holidays, birthdays and summer getaways with a Hi8 camcorder or similar format. You also want to preserve those memories.

Tape formats from the 70’s, such as U-Matic, are now considered “extinguished”. The familiar VHS tapes experience total failure if they were not carefully stored. And playback machines become obsolete for lack of spare parts. Even recent digital tape formats, such as HDCAM using Metal Evaporated tapes (ME) can have catastrophic failures.

Consider this from “ Safeguarding the Audiovisual Heritage” by the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA)

“As of 2020, it is widely accepted within the global audiovisual archival community that we have between 6 and 11 years in which to digitally preserve all tape-based audiovisual content held on magnetic media.”

“(…) the maintenance of obsolete playback systems will become unaffordable, and so our access to content held on certain media will cease.”