For years the probably most outstanding music preservation project was treated like an industry secret. A high level of technical excellence was developed to digitize the unique master tapes of the world's largest music company.
The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Beeld en Geluid) maintains 70 percent of Dutch audio-visual heritage. With around 700,000 hours of television, radio, music and film, Sound and Vision is one of the largest audio-visual archives in Europe.
As the Legal Deposit for all sound carrier published in Germany the Deutsche National Bibliothek ordered for their Deutsches Musikarchiv in Berlin a CD-Inspector robot system to check and transfer the CDs to mass-storage.
To supervise the quality of analog playback machines, Cube-Tec has invented a full-automatic inspection procedure using specialized alignment tapes, cassettes and discs for coarse- & micro-grooves.
Library and Archives Canada preserves Canadas documentary heritage. This heritage includes more than 270,000 hours of video and sound recordings.
Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT) is a non-profit public broadcaster in Vilnius, Lithuania.