PLAYBACK was an interactive DVD produced by BAVC in 2003 that provided viewers with a thorough understanding of both the technical and the ethical issues in video preservation. Funded by the NEA, The Getty Grant Program and the New Art Trust, the DVD invited users to view the technical practices of video preservation and to experience the complex decision-making process artists, conservators and video engineers engage in when the reconstruction of video artwork occurs.

The PLAYBACK DVD contained:

• Analog Video Basics: animations that depict the composition of analog videotape, demonstrate the chemical process of tape deterioration and how the video signal works.
• The Preservation Case Study: example of the real-life preservation process of the artwork.
• The Eternal Frame: a video art piece jointly produced by art collectives Ant Farm and T.R. Uthco in 1976.