Digitising The BBC Archive

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@RepublicAllegiance 6 жыл бұрын

Very well done! Makes me want to give more thought to archiving my family memories.

@video99couk 11 ай бұрын

They were both backing up onto, and archiving from, Digital Betacam tapes. Fortunately Digital Betacam was sold in absolutely massive volumes and Sony only discontinued support very recently. Parts are not so likely to be an issue with Digital Betacam as they have been with D3. In general, parts are never such a problem with Sony equipment as they are with Panasonic. I have several JVC/Panasonic formats including MII, DVCPRO (including HD) and D9. None of those formats were very popular and most gained a reputation for poor reliability. In the tape based days, Sony had the market sewn up because the machines just worked and Sony knew how to provide backup.

@FixedHDD 11 ай бұрын

"In general, parts are never such a problem with Sony equipment as they are with Panasonic." Do you have any source to back this statement other than your own experiences? It seems like a very broad statement.

@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq 3 жыл бұрын

OMG what a fascinating place the BBC Archive Centre at Perivale is to work and it is a place filled with so much broadcasting history and they have a range of vaults with 60 miles of shelving altogether which holds different media items from broadcast video cassettes to film, sheet music and spool they also have the last 60 years of television programmes and pretty much all of British television and media history is held at the archive centre. When you think about it they have over 16000000 items at Perivale no wonder it took seven months to move everything out of BBC Television Centre to the BBC Archive Centre.

@MePeterNicholls Жыл бұрын

Many of the picture issues can be restored/fixed quite well with resolve studio or similar software like PFclean

@stevecoatesdotnet 10 ай бұрын

Fascinating video. I see it was made in 2013, so I'll be interested to know how the LTO tapes have fared after so long. I have never used data tapes myself so have never been overly concerned with their reliability, unlike audio and video tapes.

@organizajoan257 5 жыл бұрын

It's a crazy work. Intense and extensive.

@dazzfromaus4797 Жыл бұрын

And after digitisation the tapes were crushed and thrown down the dump. Leaving only the digital copies remaining.

@doubledeckers Жыл бұрын

It's a bit of a scandal because there were suspected to be longevity issues with this type of metal-based tape when the BBC adopted D3 around 1991.

@gyobfan22 Жыл бұрын

There is hardly anything from the archive on Iplayer still. When will they be adding this digitised archive?

@solsticepilgrim Жыл бұрын

No idea. It would be good if the whole lot was made available on the iPlayer

@gsf5882 2 жыл бұрын

Should backup everything now and QC later. Also uncorrectable errors might be fixed in the future with future AI algorithms and the like. There must be a way Panasonic could make machines and spares if given enough money.

@Wolfcubware 2 жыл бұрын

not worth betting on future inventions to correct archival material, just safer to take a few minutes out of the process to correct them now. should be able to continue backing up other stuff during the process. just my thinking on it anyways :)

@bernardjharmsen304 4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like Kiwi accent on Deon Cotgrove

@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq 3 жыл бұрын

Does anybody know which Betacam SP Master Broadcast Video Cassette the Playdays archives are stored on?

@Hysteria98 Жыл бұрын

I wonder if they'll ever touch 'un-PC' content like the classic Benny Hill show that was beloved around the world and still is...much less ever release it or all the other content they've held onto for no one to ever see again.

@dollyrawlins5470 9 ай бұрын

Benny hill was digitised and released in full on dvd years ago.