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MEDIA BURN TURNS UP THE HEAT WITH CINEDECK ZX
Chicago-based video conversion and archiving company Media Burn substantially increased its output capabilities with the recent addition of a Cinedeck ZX. Recognized around the world for its expertise in converting virtually any type of videotape into digital format, the nonprofit essentially quadrupled the speed and quantity of its services overnight by acquiring the new technology, which was made possible by a handful of donors.
- ABOUT MEDIA BURN
In 2003, Tom Weinberg founded the Media Burn Independent Video Archive in Chicago, Illinois. Before this, there was not an archive for any of the surviving works done by Chicago’s independent filmmakers, especially those filmed during the guerrilla television era that had stemmed from the civil unrest of the 1960s.Media Burn has received notability and recognition from the National Archives and Save America’s Treasures. This archive holds more than fifteen hundred hours’ worth of video, and in recent years the internet has allowed their videos to reach upwards of nine million views.