Archiving Services
Almost 10 years ago, the first consumer video disk recorder was introduced in the broadcast industry and unleashed the digital revolution. At that time, video content began to be stored as computer data—instead of on analog or digital videotape recorder (VTR) tapes. The next decade will bring an unprecedented explosion of digital information. As broadcasters and video producers throughout the world move to computer-based platforms, digital video files will proliferate, and the demand for content storage and archiving will drastically increase. The rapid application of computing technology to broadcast television is demanding a focus on content, or asset, management. As computers become faster and network bandwidth becomes wider, customers will expect more and more of their multimedia—that is, video and audio—content to be available in a smaller amount of time and in different formats. For broadcasters to place more of their video and audio assets at users’ fingertips, the processes of capturing, storing, preserving, converting, transcoding, moving, and sharing this content will have to become simpler and less expensive.
Vendors must provide tools that support and provide higher availability and reliability while reducing overhead, maintenance, and administrative costs. Together, vendors and broadcasters must provide much more content— across distributed networks, faster, and at a reasonable cost. The information must be delivered in such a way that it becomes much more powerful for users and accessible anytime, anywhere. In today‘s changing broadcast world, storage is the foundation upon which the broadcast facility is built, and cost effective storage management, archival, and retrieval services are the framework of that foundation. Whereas immediate-use clips are stored on expensive hard disk storage, the archive system must be relied on to automatically and transparently copy content from expensive online disk to less expensive near-line storage, and then to restore the content back online, as needed.
"When the iPhone hit the scene, all bets were off."
David Schwartz, Founder DSI
With all that said, precious data and archival media is degrading with every passing moment. Opportunites to preserve history do not come along as often as one might think, therefore why allow media that could teach lessons to our grandchildren to fall out of circulation due to the media it was first cast on?
We offer very attractive discounts to schools, libraries, government offices and houses of worship. Call today to find out about large scale archiving and to help preserve history as we know it!