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Question 20.

How does your company plan to preserve the content ? Will you be copying it to data tape or to a digital videotape format ?

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ANTENA 3

Probably to digital videotape format. Decision not taken yet

BBC

The BBC is investing 100 million Euros over a decade, on a whole range of preservation projects covering all media. At present we are not making data tape, though for U-Matic preservation we are making MPEG II on DVD, which is a similar approach to making data tape. But we are also making DVC-PRO, so we are operating a mixed economy of videotape and data formats.

BNT

It is forthcoming.

CBC - BARBADOS

CBC / SRC

At this point we have transfered our old formats on both BetaSP and Digibeta (2 copies). The new material we acquire is mostly BetaSP, Digibeta and SX

CBS NEWS

CPRDP- PUERTO RICO

Digital videotape format and servers

CT- CZECH TELEVISION

No decision was made

DR - DANMARKS RADIO

We do not plan to copy the material to external formats. We would like to store the content on data tapes and secure by mirroring.

DUNA TELEVISION

We plan to copy the content to data tape in the near future

ERTT

We are already in digital tape format.

ETB

We are planning to preserve the content in data tapes when possible.

GLOBO TV

Data Tape

INA

Film material, 2" & 1" tapes : content transfered to digibeta (preservation format), and encoded in Mpeg 1 (viewing format) & Mpeg 2 (exploitation format for reuse of extracts for production)
¾" and ½" tapes directly encoded in Mpeg 1 & 2

KBS

We have been converting existing films, U-matic and Helical tapes to digital betacam format. However in order for true digital broadcasting, we need to convert all video tapes to digital tape format using MPEG-2 (50Mbp/s) and compile them into a huge Storage Tek library.

NAA

Video = Digital videotape (DIGI Beta)
Selection of the audio content = data disks(cd-r) & data tape

NBC

Topic currently under review

NHK

We are managing our huge of contents by our new archives system.We have almost finished digitalization of Film and analog tapes.

ORF

Not decided yet (digital newsroom : IMX)

RAI

We use data tape and digital video tape both.

RTBF

RTSI

Data tape.

SCREENSOUND AUSTRALIA

Video : Uncompressed probably as MXF, parallel Digital Betacam.

SF DRS

At the moment it is copies to IMX and Digital Betacam

SVT

Data tape

SWR

That will be done in a step by step process. As recently new digital tape standards for production (Panasonic DVCPRO) and long-term archiving (Sony IMX) have been adopted, tape formats are pre-eminently used for archiving. But re-development of the archive database system will be combined with an implementation of low-bandwidth preview but also high-bandwidth broadcast storage systems. That could be used as a nucleus for a future digital archiving system.