If you have old film reels tucked away in your attic, garage, or inside a shoebox in the back of your closet, you’re probably sitting on a goldmine of family memories. Weddings, first steps, birthday parties… maybe even moments you …
If you’ve ever placed an old VHS tape into a VCR and seen those wobbly horizontal lines or flickering images come up on screen, then you’ve experienced VHS tracking problems firsthand — and know how frustrating it is. In this …
Silent films were the foundation of modern cinema, and are so much more than just “movies without sound.” These movies used powerful and creative storytelling techniques to captivate audiences. Here, we explore what silent films are, how they began, why …
Whether you’re digging through old boxes of home movies or handling professional archival footage, video tape types come in all shapes and sizes—literally! Back in the day, chunky cassettes were the gold standard, but as time went on, technologies advanced …
Video tapes can become damaged for a variety of reasons (we’re talking mold, humidity, discoloration, etc) but one problem that affects aging tapes most is sticky shed syndrome. As the name suggests, this condition causes a sticky substance to appear …
Television standards dictate how television signals are formatted, transmitted, and received by TV sets. There are three main analog color standards called NTSC, PAL, and SECAM, and they’re each used in different parts of the world. The different standards are …
Digital Video was all the rage in the 1990s as it started to truly replace analog options in both the professional and amateur markets. The format was standardized and used across multiple companies and products, with Sony and Panasonic being …
Sony is one of the biggest names in video technology—and they have been pioneers in the industry for as long as the industry has existed. This means they have a lot of different products, and differentiating between them can get …
The DV (Digital Video) format is well-known among consumers for its MiniDV tapes, but there was also a larger professional variant developed by Panasonic called DVCPRO. If you’ve found old DVCPRO tapes in your collection, you might want to know …
“8mm tapes” is one of the more confusing video format terms because it refers to three types of tape: Video8, Hi8, and Digital8. 127 companies agreed to the standardized format before it came to market, which means several brands made …
