Watching The 70’s Top Of The Chart Movies On A 4K OLED Television

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Watching The 70’s Top Of The Chart Movies On A 4K OLED Television Watch your yesteryears come to life! How would you feel if on a lazy Sunday afternoon, the great white shark from the Jaws (1975) suddenly comes to life in your living room? Or, if you could trade a session of Star Wars […]

Digitization Of Audio Video Content For Long Term Preservation

Digitization for long term preservation

Digitization Of Audio Video Content For Long Term Preservation The challenges of long-term preservation of digital information have been discerned by the archival community for years. In December 1994, the Research Libraries Group (RLG) and the Commission on Preservation and Access (CPA) formed a Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information with the main aim […]

Why Managing Media Assets Is Important For Broadcasters

Managing media assets

Why Managing Media Assets Is Important For Broadcasters Spreaders and other media enterprises face a Herculean challenge of developing more and more high-quality content, spreading across an ever-shifting array of novel devices and programs, and driving higher revenue from every asset they make. All the same, many content production and broadcasting infrastructures are built on […]

Audiovisual Digitization In The Age Of Broadcasting

Audio visual formats digitization

Audiovisual Digitization In The Age Of Broadcasting Digitization in the age of broadcasting Broadcasting is indeed proliferating with its multiple screen adaptation, home videos, streaming, OTT and instant content generation. Yet are the broadcasters preserving and monetizing the extensive and instant content warehouse? “Any physical artifact is just that, a physical artifact,” says Mike Mashon, Library of […]

Why Digitization Is Critical

why digitization is critical

Why Digitization Is Critical Broadcasting is indeed proliferating with its multiple screen adaptation, home videos, streaming, OTT and instant content generation. Yet, are the broadcasters preserving and monetizing the extensive and instant content warehouse? The issues related to broadcast archives/content are wide-ranging and include technical obsolescence, media degradation, carrier deterioration, physical and chemical decay and […]

Digitization, Your Way

Digitization, Your Way Today everyone is talking about digitizing assets but the real challenge for content owners lies in three questions – where, when and how does one digitize? Content has always been the king. Whether it’s in business or personal lives, we are constantly generating, accessing and hoarding content. In a content driven world, […]

Busting Digitization Myths

Busting Digitization Myths Some African countries might have to skip the June deadline for Digital transition. The process has been engulfed by massive debates around availability of digital infrastructure, controls in set-top boxes, accessibility to digital technology, subsidizing set-top boxes, and so on. Is Digital TV the indispensable next step? Are the Digital Dividends really […]