Digital Archivist

Walk into the spare room of someone who has started preserving the family's old media, and you tend to find the same scene. A...

Why generative AI tools can't recover what was never on the tape — the structural argument, the narrow places AI does help, and the two-master discipline that resolves the question.

If you've already decided that vhs-decode is the right tool for your tapes, the next question lands almost immediately: which capture hardware should I...

Sooner or later, anyone who spends a bit of time reading about tape preservation runs into the term vhs-decode, which is (technically speaking) FM...

Preparing VHS, S-VHS or Betamax tapes for capture — cleaning heads, capstan care, mould removal, and a step-by-step procedure for hand-cleaning mouldy tapes.

Equipment, storage and methodology for digitising paper photos, slides, 35mm negatives and medium-format film — three workflow tiers from Impatient to Perfectionist.

How big the files end up, what "lossless" really means, and the ten paths people use to capture analog video tapes. Part I of a four-part VHS digitisation series.

Equipment buying guide for capturing analog video tapes — three tiers for the Impatient, Libran and Perfectionist, with quality and budget trade-offs covered.

Looking for the best way to capture VHS to digital? Quick answer: After two years testing every realistic option from a $30 USB capture...

Connect cassette deck to computer, step by stepIn Part III we covered how to clean your equipment and tapes for the best possible sound...