What does VTL stand for?

Every broadcaster in the world and beyond that, any business that has a videotape library really needs the SAMMA products if they care about what they have and want to preserve it.

After breaking into the BBC videotape library, I take a powerful degausser from my Magnobelt, then walk among the shelves, bulk-erasing such crimes against humanity as Friday Night With Jonathan "Top Ranker" Ross and Antique Hunt (much the same thing, if you pronounce it properly), and on occasion I even use my superpowers against the celebs themselves, leaving them so mutilated that they can only be identified by their dental records.

It announced last month that AOL Time Warner's CNN will use Media Production Suite to digitize the news channel's vast videotape library.

The college continues to digitize its existing videotape library, making digital video accessible to faculty and students easily and immediately, while virtually eliminating time-consuming VHS tape library cataloging, tracking, and management requirements.

The Marantz MV8300 is an easy to use add-on component that provides this capability to consumers, and as an added benefit, it is backward-compatible with a customer's existing videotape library.

Now customers can create a digital video library that serves as an efficient, single-source repository for duplicating and distributing rich-media at a lower cost than a videotape library.

Previously, staff had to travel to a central videotape library, pull the tapes they hoped would contain the information they were looking for, then spend hours manually shuttling back and forth through the tapes.

Annabel Colley, currently chair of the Association of UK Media Librarians, started her career as a librarian in the BBC's Film and Videotape Library.