broadcast tv

The reason these clips look better than anyone remembers has surprisingly little to do with the tape itself. That footage was always this good. What changed is everything that used to sit between the tape and your eyes. A 70s music show went out through a broadcast chain that composite-encoded...

Nine PBS in St. Louis has more than 70 years of its own programming, over 50 terabytes of it, sitting inside an Iron Mountain facility in Denver that it cannot get into. The cloud storage vendor, Open Source Storage, cut access around the annual contract expiry in early March and then simply...