# The Video Files Episode

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Podcast: [Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It](https://stenobird.com/podcast/jason-scott-talks-his-way-out-of-it-176848)
Published: 2026-01-05T06:18:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 704

## Resource

The Video Files Episode: Hard Drives Locked, Thousands of Hours of Video, Television, Audio Versus Video, The Missing Dates, The Usefulness of Video, The Sheer Disk Space, The Future of Analytics, The Unknown. About how the thousands of hours, soon to become tens of thousands of hours, of television will find a home at the Internet Archive and maybe, with some luck, the future.

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