Digitizing Old School Video and Film: Saving VHS, 8mm, and Game Footage Before It's Lost
Magnetic tape is the most chemically unstable media most schools own, and the vast majority of it is sitting in storage closets, equipment rooms, and forgotten cabinets right now, degrading on its own schedule. VHS cassettes documenting state championship games from the 1990s. Super 8 film reels from a school’s first homecoming parade. Betacam cassettes of graduation ceremonies that predate digital photography. Each of these formats is on a countdown: magnetic tape decays whether or not you play it, and the playback equipment needed to convert it grows rarer every year.
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