Digital Migration Labs Information

We provide professional ingest and migration services to media asset owners requiring access to valuable content recorded on magnetic tape and optical disks. Even if stored in optimal conditions, media can become unstable over time and unplayable. Unlike wine, magnetic and optical media do not improve with age. There is a worldwide crisis to preserve media content as carriers become unstable. Vintage equipment and spares to play back legacy analog formats are becoming scarce. The pool of expertise is shrinking daily as professionals with specialized technical and operational knowledge and experience retire. Many media preservationists including the Library of Congress have stated there is a short window of opportunity to digitally preserve legacy audio and video recordings before preservation becomes too expensive or unattainable. The National Film and Sound Archive publication "Deadline 2025" states: "There is now consensus among audiovisual archives internationally that we will not be able to support large-scale digitisation of magnetic media in the very near future. Tape that is not digitised by 2025 will in most cases be lost forever." We focus on serving the needs of corporate and government clients, as awareness of the crisis in media migration increases. Our preservation specialists have proven experience in entertainment, media and production technologies and will deliver your content to the highest quality output formats. We provide quality, value, efficiency, innovation, integrity, capability within a sound commercial environment. We believe business success must be built on high quality services and we focus on satisfying the requirements of the most discerning sector of the Archival market.