The analog vs digital audio debate spans film, art, and music, with creators and listeners wondering which is better. After all, if digital audio was superior, would it not have replaced its predecessor, analog? Although many technological advances completely displace …
While most people open Spotify or YouTube to listen to music, there’s still a market for physical products — and we’re not just talking about CDs. Over the past two years, artists like Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, and Sabrina Carpenter …
So many elements can damage physical media, including mold, mildew, sunlight, stains, and — worst of all — water. It seems intuitive to think that water damage is a life-ender for photos. They are made of paper, after all. However, …
Cassette tapes have been around since the 1960s, allowing people to record, play, and share audio more easily and conveniently than ever before. The tech inside a cassette tape isn’t that different from what came before it — two reels …
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 …
Reel-to-reel tapes, also known as R2R tapes and open-reel tapes, are an old audio recording format that originated almost 100 years ago and became popular in the 1950s and 1960s. If you have old reel-to-reel tapes in your collection, now …
The earliest versions of instant film appeared in the 1940s and, thanks to a recent resurgence, it’s still popular even today. This fun yet practical technology allows people to view their photos a mere 60 seconds after taking them, and …
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 …
DAT tapes are a type of audio recording format that was popular among recording professionals in the 1990s. They were famous for the perfect, lossless copies they could record but were also too expensive compared to CDs to gain wide …
