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What Is the Difference Between a Video Camera and a Camcorder?
What Is the Difference Between a Video Camera and a Camcorder?
You say to-mae-toe. I say to-mah-toe. You say video camera. I say camcorder. Wait, you’re telling me there’s a difference between a video camera and a camcorder? Get out of...
Top 5 Albums Released on Cassette
Top 5 Albums Released on Cassette
When you think of top music today, who and what comes to mind? Probably tons of artists that you have access to through iTunes, spotify, Apple Music, and Youtube right?...
How Did the First Photograph Work?
How Did the First Photograph Work?
Today, photography is as commonly known as the sky being blue. But there was a time when photography was a totally revolutionary term. Long before we ever knew what a...
When Did Movie Theaters Stop Using Film?
When Did Movie Theaters Stop Using Film?
Do you remember going to the movies? Now that we have been in a pandemic, it may seem a thing in the past, but they are still there! Just close...
History of Digital Cameras
History of Digital Cameras
Today, everyone with a smartphone also has a digital camera in their pocket. It’s a luxury that we’ve come so accustomed to that it’s taken for granted. Heck, just 15...
Top 5 Weird Old Camera Formats
Top 5 Weird Old Camera Formats
Cameras have existed for about 150 years. Sure, some people argue that rudimentary cameras existed prior to that in the form of camera obscura, but I’m not counting that. I’m...
Which Is Older 8 Track or Cassette?
Which Is Older 8 Track or Cassette?
In the 1960s, several forms of analog magnetic tape recordings took the music world by storm by making music listening and recording much more accessible to the average consumer. But...
How Do You Keep Old Pictures From Fading?
How Do You Keep Old Pictures From Fading?
All too often, we believe that our pictures, tapes, films, and other analog media will last forever. We especially believe our pictures will exist until the sun swallows the earth....
How Much Did Cassette Tapes Cost in the 80s?
How Much Did Cassette Tapes Cost in the 80s?
Imagine (if you had the luxury of doing so back in the day) walking through your local shopping mall rocking your Sony Walkman on the hip of your acid washed...
What Is the Difference Between 8mm and MiniDV?
What Is the Difference Between 8mm and MiniDV?
8mm tapes and MiniDV tapes...what’s the difference? Both are home movie favorites, both were extremely popular during one point in time, and both are very similar. There is a difference!...
How Do I Know if My VHS Is Damaged?
How Do I Know if My VHS Is Damaged?
After visiting family and sifting through our old VHS collection, we found some Hollywood hits and also some old family favorites. The boxes? Cardboard. The VHS tapes? Here and there!...
Can I Edit My Legacybox Digital Files?
Can I Edit My Legacybox Digital Files?
There is nothing more special in life than spending time with the people we love and care about. So making memories with those people, and recording those memories, has become...
What Are the Benefits to Digitizing Your Media?
What Are the Benefits to Digitizing Your Media?
Discover a better way to keep old memories new We’re nearly 20 years into the 21st century, and if time has taught us anything, it’s that technology only continues to...