Posts by Rhony Division

Preserving the Visual Past: Panasonic MII

 by Rhony Division, Moving Image Preservation Production Supervisor, Barbara Goldsmith Preservation Division
February 24, 2015
Back in 1986 Panasonic thought they had the competitive answer to Sony's Betacam SP format. Their product was smaller, lighter and poised to take over the electronic news gathering (ENG) market. The plan must have looked great on paper, but the MII format was a disaster.
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Preserving the Visual Past: An Introduction

 by Rhony Division, Moving Image Preservation Production Supervisor, Barbara Goldsmith Preservation Division
October 2, 2013

When people ask me what I do, I usually answer them by stating that I'm in the restoration business. Anyone who has ever seen an episode of This Old House knows what it is when something is restored. Restoring an item also has this connotation that you will soon get that object back near its original form. It is easier to grasp and I get less blank stares. It is another story altogether when I tell them I work in Preservation.

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