#endangeredmedia — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #endangeredmedia, aggregated by home.social.
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Nibble Stew: Digitizing super 8 film yourself. “In our previous post we looked at fixing a super 8 film projector. While watching film with a real projector has its own charm, it is inconvenient to say the least. … Even if you manage not to burn the film, merely running it through the projector causes wear, scratches and tearing. While film typically ages very well, eventually it will turn […]
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Harvard Gazette: Time has not been kind to VHS. “After winning the battle for dominance with the Betamax cassette, the VHS ushered in an era of amateur filmmaking, home movie collections, and video store rentals. Recognizing the value of the new format, Harvard curators quickly began amassing materials on VHS. Though no single tally of Harvard’s VHS holdings exists, a 2018 count of […]
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How-To Geek: Your Old Audio Cassette Collection Is Destroying Itself. “So, for some inexplicable reason, cassette tape collecting is now also a thing alongside vinyl. This time there aren’t even any arguments about analog sound quality, it just seems to be a vibe but, hey, you do you! However, if you’re building a cassette collection, or you have one from before, you should know that this form […]
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ABS-CBN: Resurrecting nostalgia: Archiving to preserve history before it’s too late. “In the age of streaming, it’s hard to imagine not being able to watch a film again after its theatrical run, or a show after it has aired on television. But almost half a century ago, this was the reality faced by then-high school student Dann Garcia. He observed at the time the dearth in the available […]
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INFO 653 Knowledge Organization: Recovering Lost Media. “The Lost Media Wiki is a grassroots community lead project to track down and archive pieces of media (video, audio, video games, art, or printed) that have been lost or been made inaccessible to the public. Beginning in 2012 on its previous website, the wikia has grown into a massive cataloging initiative with a community of over 17,000 […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/24/info-653-knowledge-organization-recovering-lost-media/
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JoBlo: Hundreds of your Warner Bros DVDs probably don’t work anymore; UPDATED with response from WB . “In the last few days since we posted this piece, the story has gone viral, and now Warner Bros has reached out to us with a statement from their Home Video department offering to make good on the ruined DVDs – if possible.”
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The Conversation: How we’re recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes. “Before the iPod came along, people recorded their favourite tunes straight from the radio. Some of us made home recordings with our sibling and grandparents – precious childhood snippets. And a few of us even have recordings from that time we travelled to a village in Vanuatu, some 40 years […]