Obsolete Formats

CTL-E-0762 · Practice · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Carriers whose playback and migration paths are disappearing: reel-to-reel and cassette tape, U-matic and half-inch video, floppy disks, unlabeled CDs, MiniDV/DAT with dead transfer software.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PRESERVE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PRESERVE-001:CTL-PRESERVE-E-005; source research type(s): risk. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

NEDCC, '40 Years of HBCU Radio Broadcast Formats' (Aug 20, 2026) — https://www.nedcc.org/about/nedcc-stories/hbcu-formats (primary source)
UChicago News, 'The hidden history of guerrilla television: UChicago scholars preserve decades-old videos' — http://news.uchicago.edu/story/hidden-history-guerrilla-television-uchicago-scholars-preserve-decades-old-videos (primary source)
History News Network, 'Progress Digitizing the Johnson Publishing Archive' — https://www.hnn.us/article/progress-digitizing-the-johnson-publishing-archive

Record CTL-E-0762 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 3 sources (2 primary) · CTL research: PRESERVE-001.
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