What are your favorite places to find archived news footage and imagery online for free? Looking to put together a list of sites for communications studies students to help them approximate the functionality of the Vanderbilt Television News Archive without spending hours hunting on YouTube for media to critique. [more inside]
posted by activitystory on Mar 13, 2009 - 1 answer

I'm planning on ripping my DVD collection to a media server, with varying amounts of losslessness depending on the film. There are a lot of ways to do this, and I'm looking for the "best" way. After the jump I'll describe my current plan, please comment on and clarify the various technical considerations. [more inside]
posted by lifeless on May 22, 2007 - 11 answers

I'm looking for high resolution video of the Mission Accomplished moment, from network perspectives. [more inside]
posted by prostyle on Sep 15, 2006 - 8 answers

What is the best alternate video format to archive DV video. [more inside]
posted by cowmix on Mar 21, 2006 - 11 answers

What is the best hardware/software configuration to archive 200 VHS tapes (around 400 hours)? [more inside]
posted by cowmix on Aug 21, 2005 - 14 answers