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Conference Paper

High-Speed Transfer From Analogue Tape To Digital Files

Authors: Viering, Harald

AES Conference: 20th International Conference: Archiving, Restoration, and New Methods of Recording · Paper 1938 · October 2001

Abstract

An IASA study, executed by the National Congress Library of Washington, USA, estimates that more than 60 million program hours of tapes are stored in world-wide archives. Adding to those other private libraries such as broadcasters, blind-associations and govern-mental institutions, this figure is probably 3 to 4 times higher. We are dealing with enormous amount of analogue audio data which eventually needs to be transferred to digital. Various aspects make this transfer mandatory as the demand of modern libraries is changing. To serve their clients and meet expectations adequately, archives today have to provide:

Details

Published in
AES Conference: 20th International Conference: Archiving, Restoration, and New Methods of Recording
Paper number
1938
Publication date
October 6, 2001
Session subject
Archiving, Restoration, and New Methods of Recording
Affiliation
Otari (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Conference Paper