1000 Year Archives

Vinyl Record Audio Transfers Vinyl Records were the thing for many many years.  They are the child of the original cylinder recordings.  They were more reliable and durable.  They came in multiple formats including: Thick 78 RPM records, Small 45RPM records, Larger 33RPM long play records, Recordable home use records and the same home use records that played in reverse order.  There were also Transcription Records which were unusually...

U-Matic Video Transfers   U-Matic being one of the very first steps away from an actual Reel To Reel Video recorder was well on it’s way to becoming the Video Home System but it’s price and size seemed to keep it out of homes.  It did however find a home with Corporate and Educational environments for Video. With much use, the U-Matic format proliferated and is still found today within many archives awaiting conversion and...

PCM Digital Audio Adapter to Video Media Preserve specializes in recovering and restoring video tape recorded with the Digital Audio PCM, usually checkerboard visual signature and converting and transferring the resulting Digital Audio stream into a more common and long term digital audio format of your choice.  It is as simple as sending Media Preserve your video tape with the PCM video signal and we will convert it and return your...

Mini Disc Audio Transfers Mini Disc format was a short lived format but it was indeed a high quality format.  The user could choose to record in the compressed format that was the default or if their equipment was capable of it, they could choose to record in a PCM format of 44.1khz or 48khz uncompressed format.  Mini Disc was used by consumers and Professionals.  There were some devices that would also allow the disc to be used as a...

Digital Video Tape Transfers Just before everything went to Flash Memory, High Definition Video Tape was the next best thing in video recording.  It came in various flavors.  The flavors we transfer at Media Preserve are as follows: DVCAM, Mini DV Standard and High Definition & Digital-8 All formats are transferred to the new format of your choice: Blu-Ray, DVD, Flash Memory, Hard Drive and Downloadable Files. The most common...

Just because you have transferred all of your important data to digital discs, does that mean it will be there next time you need to access it? OR Could there be a missing link which no one has ever discussed with you?  The missing link of “DATA DEATH” …  You thought you had done your job and moved into the future where everything will always get better…  Right? Before you find every precious bit and byte has...