
How Schools and Businesses Can Preserve Old Video Archives
Somewhere in a closet, a storage room, or a locked cabinet at your organization, there is probably a box of videotapes nobody has played in years. Graduation ceremonies from the

Somewhere in a closet, a storage room, or a locked cabinet at your organization, there is probably a box of videotapes nobody has played in years. Graduation ceremonies from the

Somewhere on your campus there is a shelf, a cabinet, or a cardboard box full of tapes. Graduation ceremonies from the 1990s. The drama department’s spring musical. Game film from

Somewhere in your home there is probably a small metal can, a flat cardboard box, or a dusty plastic case with a reel inside. It might have come from a

You pull a box of old tapes out of the closet. There’s a wedding, a few birthdays, and a stack of unlabeled cassettes from the 90s. Before you slide one

Walk into the storage room of almost any established Twin Cities company and you’ll likely find a stack of old VHS tapes, a few dusty U-matic cassettes, or a box

Every VHS tape has a shelf life, and it’s shorter than most people assume. A tape sitting in a closet doesn’t look like it’s changing from one year to the