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In the current issue 1/2025 of the VDT magazine you will find a 5-page article by Torsten Ahl (Deutsches Musikarchiv) and Tom Lorenz about finding the correct playback speed for historical shellac records (78 rpm discs).

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To efficiently manage and securely preserve their extensive audiovisual archive comprising over 24,000 audiovisual documents, the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL) in Münster (Germany) relies on the Media Asset Management System Cube • Collections from Cube-Tec International. …

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25 years ago, at the 5th Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) in Paris in January 2000, QUADRIGA was presented to the international archiving community for the first time! To mark the anniversary, we look back at the milestones in the QUADRIGA success story and take a look at the forward-looking …

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This year Cube-Tec provided two conference contributions to the FIAT/IFTA in Bucharest, Romania. The first presentation was held by Jörg Houpert (Head of Technology, Cube-Tec) about the topic "Preserving authenticity in a large-scale migration process", which started on the 15th of October.

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Approximately 550,000 hours of program material on video cassettes have to be preserved in the National Library of Norway's digital long-term archive. These recordings are part of legal deposit recordings of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. In order to protect these unique …

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With its four brand new INSPECTIONscan systems, the BFI National Archive has dramatically increased efficiency for inspecting its film treasures and making them accessible without risking fragile film reels.