Preserving home movies for streaming

By Mark Rukavina’s estimates, there are over 1 billion home movies from the analog era sitting in closets, waiting to be digitized.

In another era, he’d be trying to sell you on getting those old VHS tapes and 8mm movies transferred to digital by way of a DVD and his iMemories company.

But not anymore. For him, it’s now all about the cloud, to see those flickering old images — along with new stuff — on apps and streaming TV.

Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY

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