One of first video clip and stock footage providers utilizing Sony's XDCAM discs for long term archival storage has launched.

The production team at CriticalPast.com, which specializes in instantly down-loadable historic stock footage and photographs, created the site by loading pre-edited MXF video files onto thousands of XDCAM discs and then utilizing Sony's PDZ-1 software to insert metadata into each file.
Each MXF file was then off-loaded to a large storage array for instantaneous trans-coding to multiple file formats, with the metadata from each file used to populate the descriptions and titles for each video clip on the site.
Stored under optimum conditions, XDCAM discs have an archival shelf life of 50 years or greater, thus providing CriticalPast excellent data recovery in the event of system failure. CriticalPast