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Audio & video tape restoration, preservation & digitisation. #digitalpreservation

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@SamuelMorter Yes, we can! https://t.co/gbjT9Ju2Bn

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@Tai_Shani Hey Tai - we do a lot of work like this for artists & galleries. Please get in touch! https://t.co/r3e2wWxQ0w
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3.5 inch spool "Tape Letters" aka "Voice Letters" have been a fascinating strand of our work for many years. Here are some tapes from the 1960s for #EYALetters #ExploreYourArchive & #TapeBoxTuesday and a vintage tape blog post from 2013: https://t.co/dnoxE3oaTR

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@BLSoundHeritage Not sitting on spare machines right now (sadly) but we'll happily transfer any 1/2" and 1" multi-track on our machines if you need to outsource!
https://t.co/JPGrtbzRlz

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Artists we've happily worked for and artists we love: coming together tonight for gig at our favourite London venue... @psychetropes, Mark Vernon, @Howlroundmusic, @iklectikartlab for @crisis_uk “Tape Letters From The Waiting Room” and we wish we were there!

[psyché tropes @psychetropes]

Teaser for this Friday 21st January at @iklectikartlab https://t.co/xTYhNTEzkK

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@OddityArchive yes please!

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Happy New Year to all our #Archivist, #Librarian and #AudiovisualPreservation colleagues and friends! January is the perfect month to hunker down in a humming tape digitising studio... Looking forward to a busy 2022 saving #tape !

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Really interesting question for #archive & #digitisation community! #mediapreservation #AudiovisualPreservation #AudiovisualHeritage

[Casey E. Ovella Davis @CaseyEDavis1]

#avarchives @amianet if you have ever shipped a 20-40 foot container of historic videotapes internationally via cargo ship, please let me know. I have questions!

[United Nations @UN]

Wednesday is #AudioVisualHeritageDay 🎦

Audiovisual archives are crucial to helping preserve key moments in history. Yet, their preservation is threatened by factors such as obsolete technology, chemic decay & more. https://t.co/eBT4JyWuh0 via @UNESCO

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Happy UNESCO #AudiovisualHeritageDay everyone! Funders & Philanthropists, please believe us, this is urgent! C20th audio and video heritage on tape is decaying now and will be lost, if we don't preserve it. #AudiovisualHeritage #MemoryoftheWorld #AVArchives
#AVPreservation

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We admit this is more about the tape than the box! The short-lived larger-than-compact cassette format from Grundig, the DC International (1965-'67). Sweet "book-style" cases. #TapeBoxTuesday #cassettes
#audiotape #tapearchives

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Happy #InternationalRepairDay! In AV preservation, we spend a lot of time lovingly repairing 'obsolete' machines. Lately we've been digitising lots of interesting 1/2" open reel video tape, so here's Adrian fixing another Sony AV-3670's corroded trimmers! https://t.co/xNPtUfDeyS

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@StPaulsCRNVL Love this fantastic resource! Have you got this from 1968? https://t.co/pPH9Ek6IEC

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1968 St. Paul's Festival doc (we digitised from the only remaining VHS copy!) screened by @cables_cameras this weekend
@CUBECINEMA #StPaulsCarnival

[Cables&Cameras CIC @cables_cameras]

Cables and Cameras presents : CELEBRATE WHAT ?
A rare opportunity to stream director Colin Thomas's 1968 short documentary about St Paul's Festival.
https://t.co/q7m3BlZ7q5 @cables_cameras @CUBECINEMA @FullCircleYFP @BristolFilmCity @VisitBristol

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International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives @iasa_web call for proposals: https://t.co/dznDzbDTB0 #audiovisualheritage #WeAreInternational

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@JoeRessington we do that! https://t.co/Y5diq2UGyr

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A sturdy box for #TapeBoxTuesday -
this 1970s Scotch UC-60 U-matic box wants to be a shipping container! #videopreservation #avpreservation #videoarchives

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Intervox! Eye-catching 1/4" box from Soviet-era Russian archive. Not found another online - anyone got more knowledge? #TapeBoxTuesday #easternbloc
#soviet #reeltoreel #tapearchives #1960sdesign

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Lovely 'A Format' 1 inch video tape we use for testing makes brief appearance in
@OddityArchive : Episode 211 – Prehistoric Videotape (The Road To Quadruplex)! https://t.co/hqHQ68UXIS #videotape #reel-to-reel #wealsotransferquadruplex

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Interesting-looking doc featuring Lou Ottens (inventor of the audio cassette tape in 1962) screening free online this weekend! https://t.co/lWHwl8Kkf1 #compactcassette #tape @docnrollfest