History
Traditional broadcast and sound archives have proven over the years to be extremely labor intensive to maintain and manage. This is due in part to the personnel intensive nature of the extremely important quality control process associated with maintaining the highest possible technical standards. As broadcasting migrated from analog to digital technology, broadcasters were forced to digitize analog assets – something that has been on-going since the early 1990s.
This transition from single-sound-carriers to everlasting digital data in the form of sound files represents the evolution from the past to the future – a significant step towards higher quality and more accessible sound archives. Unlike most analog media, digital sound files can be stored in large-scale file servers, which are accessible via the broadcasters network, and / or via the internet.
The most critical stage in the process is the original transfer from the analog to the digital domain, and failure to execute this properly significantly compromises the integrity of the archive. This fact forced broadcasters and archives to seek out technology that would be capable of managing the analog to digital transfer process, while maintaining the highest possible level of quality control.
To this end, a sophisticated hardware and software based solution called Quadriga was developed in 1998 by Bremen, Germany based "Cube-Tec International GmbH", in close cooperation with the "Institut für Rundfunktechnik" (IRT) and the German "public broadcasting". Quadriga is a registered trademark of IRT and is exclusively marketed by Cube-Tec International. The name Quadriga is derived from "QUality from Analog to Digital RIGorously Analyzed". Quadriga is used internationally by broadcasting companies, archives and music enterprises.
Read more about this topic: Quadriga Audio-Archiving Solution
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