The video attached to this story was provided to KXAN by the Texas Archive of the Moving Image in 2023.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Archive of the Moving Image, or TAMI, wants your old VCR and video decks so it can continue to preserve the state's recorded footage.

The nonprofit announced the start of its "Equipment Round-Up" on Tuesday.

TAMI Technical Director Ari Negovschi Regalado said that the archive is "expecting the end-of-life" for its video tape decks. Those are critical for its work converting physical media to digital.

"We are expecting the end-of-life for many of our current video decks, for which we do not have backups," Regalado said in the announcement. "We are down to our last two U-matic machines and urgently need donations, of this format and many others, in order to ke

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