News Summary:
On August 17, 2026, the British Film Institute (BFI National Archive) expanded its INSPECTIONscan installation, relying on four systems since 2024 to support its film inspection and preservation workflows. Previously, on March 12, 2026, Bremen's Mayor Dr. Andreas Bovenschulte visited the company's headquarters to discuss the preservation of film, video, and audio for the digital future, highlighting Cube-Tec's innovative technology in protecting audiovisual heritage. Earlier, on January 28, 2026, Jörg Houpert of Cube-Tec announced he would present a technical case study, "The inspection and digitisation of 100000 film reels – lessons learned what’s next?", at the Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) 2026, scheduled for March 3-4, 2026, in Canberra, Australia, addressing the challenge of aging analogue film collections. This followed Cube-Tec's attendance at the AMIA 2025 conference in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 9, 2025, which gathered over 550 professionals for presentations, workshops, and sessions on media preservation. Just prior to this, on December 7, 2025, Cube-Tec International GmbH finalized the 10-year ORF Video Migration project, successfully transferring over 600,000 video cassettes from the Austrian public service broadcaster ORF's archive to a file-based broadcasting system.