Inevitably technology marches ever forward and new 8mm, Hi8 and Digital8 videotapes are no longer being produced, making it a challenge to find the parts we need to continue working with the formats as we have in the past.

A safe seems like a great idea for storing everything in your home that is irreplaceable, and for important documents and jewelry it certainly is.

Of all the tape problem scenarios we hear about, the one I dread the most is footage that has been recorded over or erased.

We recently received a question from a reader asking what he should do with some tapes that hadn’t been played in many years.  Was there any risk to the tapes themselves if they were used in a normal manner?

There are many, many ways for a tape to get wet; whether or not the footage can be salvaged depends on what it was exposed to.