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Segment 4: Video
Length: 10 minutes, 14 seconds
Sarah Stauderman, Preservation Manager at The Smithsonian Institution Archives, discusses preservation and reformatting options for videotapes. Ms. Stauderman comments on the history of video recordings, the different videotape formats, the life expectancy of videotape, the obsolescence ratings for videotape formats, and the different pigment components of videotapes. Compression, storage standards, and cleaning of videotapes are also discussed.
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audiotapes
audiovisual
Audiovisual Media
cassettes
CCAHA
Center
compression
conservation
Conservation
Conservation Center
film
Manager
media
mm
motion
obsolescence
picture
playback
preservation
Preservation
Race
Race Against Time
reformatting
Sarah
Smithsonian
Stauderman
Time
VHS
videocassettes
videotapes
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