There are many different types of video and audio files in use today within the modern broadcast plant. Some of the more common file types take various forms when transported with their associated ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The last newsletter covered some of the most common video file formats in use. This tutorial will ...

Your grandkids probably won't fare as well with your digital photos. The computer files may survive but the equipment to make sense of them might not. This era could become a 'digital dark age' _ a ...

Digital file formats don't usually get the rock star treatment when it comes to entering the public's consciousness, but if one ever did, the MP3 format is it. But that's all coming to an end — or at ...

For years, filmmakers have been vexed by a chaotic Wild West of digital file formats that caused everything from dramatic falloffs in image quality to vast jumps in cost. Now, a new fix from the ...

When it comes to discussions of digital audio, you’ll quickly run into an alphabet soup of acronyms: MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, DSD, and so on. It’s practically endless. You’d think that with this ...

In the early days of the internet, sharing digital files was often a headache. Incompatible formats, proprietary software requirements, and large file sizes made collaboration difficult. If you ...

Most of your digital photos are stored in the JPEG format (a.k.a. JPG), but when you download an image from the web these days, it may be using the more modern WebP format. It's likely you're also ...

VHS tapes deteriorate over time, but A VHS-to-DVD converter machine can preserve those precious videos in digital form. While the era of VHS tapes is long gone, many of us still have VHS cassettes ...