The history of media storage is a journey of multiple formats and interesting ideas. From the early days of film to the modern day solid state drive media storage has come in many different forms.

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. In an alternate universe, movie buffs have Citizen Kane on vinyl. In that ...

The Moving Image explores topics relevant to both the media archivist and the media scholar. The Moving Image deals with crucial issues surrounding the preservation, archiving, and restoration of film ...

Today we're looking at RCA's ill-fated attempt to put video on vinyl records! SelectaVision, aka the Capacitance Electronic Disc. This was a system that encoded nanoscale features onto carbon-filled ...

Vishay Intertechnology announced that it has extended the capacitance range of its 440L series of AC-line-rated ceramic disc capacitors. With their high capacitance range, 440L series capacitors save ...

When I talk about the discs I watched videos on as a kid people assume I mean laser discs, or maybe I’ve confused my decades and mean DVDs, or even video CDs. There’s an assumption that I’ve just ...

Hey Bob: Are you kidding me? That's an RCA model SGT250, with tangential-tracking, CX stereo noise reduction and infrared remote control! What do you mean old technology? I promised my wife one of ...