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How do you preserve decades of film, video, and audio for the digital future? Last week, we had the pleasure of discussing precisely that with Bremen's Mayor, Dr. Andreas Bovenschulte, who paid a visit to our headquarters to find out more about how innovative technology from Bremen is …

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Some impressions from the Cube-Tec perspective of the AMIA conference in Baltimore, MD. More than 550 professionals from many countries around the world were in attendance. In addition to interesting presentations, there were also workshops, screenings, and more than 60 sessions programmed …

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In a joint effort, the entire video archive of the Austrian public service broadcaster ORF, comprising over 600,000 cassettes, was transferred to the file-based broadcasting world. Since the cassettes were shredded after the transfer, a particularly high level of quality assurance had to be …

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Every year on the 27th of October, audiovisual archives around the globe celebrate the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. It is the day on which we consciously honour the audiovisual recordings that document our shared history and cultural identity. When properly contextualised, these …

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Barcelona, April 25, 2025: Cube-Tec International has successfully delivered and installed the cutting-edge INSPECTIONscan film scanner at the Filmoteca de Catalunya. With this step, the institution is leaving behind traditional film winding tables and entering a new era of film preservation.

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After just over a year, the project will be celebrating its first million: the first million programme minutes from the German film heritage will have been conservationally examined as part of the project. Bundesarchiv has the legal mandate to permanently preserve the archive holdings of the …