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What Does Reminiscing Do to the Mind?
Picture this: you’re sitting in math class, and your eyes are glazing over while the teacher is talking about differentials. Instead of pay attention to the very important equations that your wiry-haired instructor is scribbling on the board, your mind...Read More -
Old Camcorder Formats
Think about this for a second: your phone, which can make and receive calls from around the world, allow you access to infinite content on the web, entertain you with games, movies and more, not to mention the evolving spectacle...Read More -
Who Invented Photo Slides?
In the age of digital photography, it’s difficult to imagine a time when taking a still photograph of a moment was an impossibility. Living in a culture of constant entertainment through social media, television, and film can make us forget...Read More -
What is Nostalgia and why do we crave it?
Maybe it’s a smell? Or a taste? Possibly something tangible like an old toy or stomping grounds? Whatever it is for you, our nostalgic subconscious can be triggered before we even realize what hit us, taking us back to a...Read More -
Tape Tracking: What is it? How Does it Work?
For those old enough to remember, tape tracking was like an act of wizardry back in the day when renting VHS tapes from the local video store (RIP Blockbuster) or watching home videos. Turning the tracking dials just enough – a...Read More -
Why Do VHS Tapes Degrade Over Time?
There’s something so special about gathering your family around the television, popping in an old VHS from years past, and watching the past come back to life through video. Whether you’re watching a pool party from twenty years ago, someone’s wedding...Read More -
Can I Digitize my Films Myself?
If you’re like most of us, chances are that you have a shoebox full of old home movies that is collecting dust in a closet somewhere in your home. Those special memories shouldn’t be left to the tests of time...Read More -
More Doing, Less Talking
Design lessons from our biggest year to-dateLast year we digitally preserved over 100,000 home movies, 600,000 photos, and 5,808 football fields of film. This represents 26,643 miles of videotape, 95,751 barcode scans, and nearly 10,000 lines of code. We tripled...Read More -
10 Fashion Trends That Are Making a Comeback
What goes around always comes back around eventually. We see this happening practically everywhere we look – popular movies and TV shows from the 80s and 90s are getting rebooted left and right, midcentury modern furniture and décor is ruling...Read More -
Top 5 Most Cliché Family Road Trips
Family road trips have been and will always be a call for laughs and adventure. Spending hours, trapped in a car with your family, in itself is enough to drive anyone bonkers let alone all of the drama that happens...Read More
