Much of Malaysia's rich heritage was recorded in the 20th century across various tape-based formats, all of which are now obsolete. Our audiovisual legacy holds immense value, encapsulating crucial moments and memories that define our culture and history. DOTCOM, in partnership with DamSmart, is dedicated to unlocking our audiovisual history and allow it to continue to create value and benefit for all Malaysians.
Damsmart is an approved audiovisual digitization services provider to both the Australian National Film and Sound Archive and the National Archive Australia.
We specialize in converting & preserving a wide range of audiovisual formats into high quality digital outputs that last.
In addition to audio-visual archives, we offer Document Digitisation & Archiving with robotic book scanners, microfilm digitisation, and enterprise document management—ensuring all formats are future-ready.
We are proud to serve a diverse portfolio of clients across Medical, Corporate, and Banking/Financial Services Sectors. Our solutions are trusted by leading private hospitals, top-tier corporates, and major financial institutions in Malaysia—demonstrating our ability to deliver secure, scalable, and mission-critical digitisation and archiving services across industries.
The lack of videotape and audiotape playback equipment means that accessing content in your physical collections will be lost in the next 5 to 8 years. By acting now to digitize, you can make sure that your organization's commercial and cultural assets are safe.
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Australia's National Film and Sound Archive's discussion paper "Deadline 2025" outlines the critical need for innovative strategies to preserve and digitize audiovisual collections amid rapid technological advancements. It highlights the importance of adapting preservation methods to ensure that significant film and sound heritage remains accessible for future generations.
Download Dealine 2025 discussion paper to learn more.
The principal function of SBS is to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services to inform, educate and entertain all Australians. Since its inception in 1978, SBS has grown to broadcast in over 100 languages, reaching more than 7 million Australians each week.
In 2010, SBS introduced a digital file system for television content, but most pre-2010 content remains on videotape, including news, current affairs, NITV, entertainment and sports content.
With its high reliance on videotape presents challenges to SBS – inefficiencies of managing physical media in a file-based environment and risk to content due to aging physical media.
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The National Archives of Australia (NAA) has responsibility under the Commonwealth Archives Act 1983 for the preservation, conservation and storage of all Commonwealth records, including the archival resources of the Commonwealth.
The NAA audiovisual collection includes approximately 82,500 hours of audio and 124,500 hours of video recordings on obsolete magnetic tape formats, which must be digitised soon to avoid permanent loss. In late 2016, NAA contracted DAMsmart for a 3-year period to provide specialist media conservation and mass digitisation services to preserve these valuable collections.
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