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March 5, 2009 at 6:04 am
History, One Tape at a Time

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Ever wonder who transfers all those CBC archival tapes into a digital format? Erich Schmidt is your answer. The CBC has hundreds of thousands of beta tapes and film canisters; some of which are slowly getting transferred to digital format and published on the internet as part of the CBC’s digital archives project. It’s an amazing project, but encoding and transferring beta tapes is a time-consuming process.

Paul Gorbould took the image for the CBC’s photo competition.

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Erich: Thank you.

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